Proboscis monkey, Nasalis larvatus 1,2, king colobus, Colobus polykomos 3, brown-mantled tamarin, Saguinus fuscicollis 4, red-handed howler, Alouatta belzebul 5, purple-faced langur, Trachypithecus vetulus, endangered 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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