page_title: Brehms Tierleben
section_title: Selected editions
hierarchical_section_title: Brehms Tierleben / Selected editions
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Original Bildunterschrift: "Schwimmbeutler, Chironectes minimus Zimm. 1/3 natürlicher Größe." Größe: 13,4 x 11,2 cm² English: Original caption: "Schwimmbeutler, Chironectes minimus Zimm. 1/3 natürlicher Größe." Translation (partly): "Water opossum or yapok, Chironectes minimus Zimm. 1/3 natural size." Size: 5.3 x 4.4 in² (13.4 x 11.2 cm²) Originator: Friedrich Specht
context_page_description: Brehms Tierleben is a scientific reference book, first published in the 1860s by Alfred Edmund Brehm. It was one of the first modern popular zoological treatise. First published in German as a six volume work that was completed in 1869 it was published by the Bibliographisches Institut of Herrmann Julius Meyer with illustration directed by Robert Kretschmer. The second edition, completed in 1879 had ten volumes. It was translated into several European languages.
context_section_description: Illustrirtes Thierleben.  Eine allgemeine Kunde des Thierreichs. By Alfred Edmund Brehm, Eduard Oskar Schmidt, and Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg.  6 vols.  Hildburghausen, Bibliographisches Institut, 1864–1869.
  Brehms Tierleben.  Allgemeine Kunde des Tierreichs.  By Alfred Edmund Brehm, Eduard Oskar Schmidt, and Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg.  2nd, expanded, ed.  10 vols.  Leipzig, Bibliographisches Institut, 1876–1879; reprinted 1882–1884.
  Brehms Tierleben. Allgemeine Kunde des Tierreichs.  By Alfred Edmund Brehm, Oskar Boettger, Wilhelm Haacke, Eduard Pechuël-Loesche, W. Marshall, Eduard Oskar Schmidt, and Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg.  3rd ed.  10 vols.  Leipzig, Wien, Bibliographisches Institut, 1890–1893.
caption: A Chironectes minimus sketch from Brehms Tierleben
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