Wunderbare Fische: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of "Wonderful Fish" table cover 1930s color litho cardboard glasses

1930s color litho cardboard glasses that you would just need to pop the eye holes out of to wear around

which is no longer the case on one side - no real matter

8” across at handle

Small questions cards 2 1/2" x 1 1/2"

Wunderbare Fische: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of "Wonderful Fish" table cover 1930s color litho cardboard glassesThis is not a hand colored engraving, it is an original, beautifully executed ink and watercolor drawing on watermarked laidone of four watercolors I purchased from a German seller, which appear all done by the same person, likely c. 1800. Photos do no justice to the real thing. I would guess they were the original drawings after which engravings were then made for a zoological volume. I find it, and all of them, just extraordinarily beautiful, and