Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856

Date: 1880 - 1890

By: Mutzel, Gustav, 1839-1893; Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856

Reference: A-449-008

Description: Shows a number of animals from the Australasian continent, grouped in what could be an Australian setting, but including a kakapo, a kiwi, a kea and what appears to be a tuatara Meyers Konversations-Lexikon was a major German encyclopedia that existed in various editions from 1839 until 1984, when it merged with the Brockhaus encyclopedia. Joseph Meyer (1796-1856), who had founded the publishing house Bibliographisches Institut in 1826, intended to issue a universal encyclopaedia meant for a broad public: people having a general knowledge as well as businessmen, technicians and scholars, considering contemporary works like those of Pierer and Brockhaus to be superficial or obsolete. Other Titles - Kea / Kakapo / Kiwi / Tuatara [?] (translation) Extended Title - From Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. 6th ed. (Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, ca 1880) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 200 x 257 mm on sheet 245 x 303 mm Provenance: Purchase: Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, December 2011