Background:

These Mammal prints are from the Italian edition of Alfred Brehm's The Life of the Animals.  Originally published in Germany in the 1860s, the title of the Italian edition is La Vita degli Animali.  Brehm completed this work with the assistance of two noted naturalists of the middle 1800s - Professor Taschenberg and Oscar Schmidt.

This multi-volume series was published as a reference on the animal kingdom for use in schools and by families, including descriptions of mammals, birds, insects, reptiles and fish.