Brehm, Alfred Edmund
"Het Leven der Dieren: Deel 2, Hoofdstuk 04: De Hoendervogels" by Alfred Edmund Brehm is a chapter from a zoological reference work first published in the 1860s. This installment focuses on gallinaceous birds, part of Brehm's groundbreaking encyclopedia that brought scientific animal knowledge to general readers. The work featured illustrations overseen by Robert Kretschmer and later editions included drawings that Charles Darwin praised as the finest he had seen. The encyclopedia became internationally famous and was translated into multiple European languages. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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