Joseph Leidy Rhizopod Prints for Sale

Joseph Leidy
Fresh -Water Rhizopods

The chromolithographs below are cut from Joseph Leidy's classic monograph Fresh-Water Rhizopods of North America, Volume 12 of Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, edited by F. V. Hayden and published in 1879 by the Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. The unicellular organisms known as rhizopds had been studied in Europe since the time of Leeuwenhoek, but Leidy's 1879 monograph effectively marks the emergence of protozoology in the United States. Though Leidy did the illstrations himself, he was frustrated by his inability to capture the complex movements, variable colors, and ever-changing shapes of the micro-organisms he was studying. Nonetheless, the early 20th-century zoologist Herbert S. Jennings considered the monograph as a "masterpiece" and a "section of nature permanently presented to us." These plates are printed on heavy stock with very little age toning.

"How can life be tiresome so long as there is still a rhizopod undescribed" - Leidy

Size: 11.5 x 9 inches

jcorwin@classicnatureprints	Name	Price	Condition
LEIDY-01	Amoeba proteus	Sold	Excellent
LEIDY-02	Amoeba proteus	Sold	Excellent
LEIDY-04	Amoeba radiosa et al	30.00	Excellent
LEIDY-05	Amoeba villosa	30.00	Excellent
LEIDY-06	Dinamoeba mirabilis	Sold	Excellent
LEIDY-07	Dinamoeba et al	30.00	Excellent
LEIDY-10	Difflugia pyriformis	Sold	Excellent
LEIDY-11	Difflugia pyriformis	30.00	Excellent
LEIDY-12	Diffluga spp.	30.00	Excellent
LEIDY-26	Heleopera picta et al	30.00	Excellent