1970 Black & brown Rat Print by Paul Barruel small pink roses customs officers or even boy

customs officers or even boy scouts

the Japanese common toad (Bufo formosus)

This vintage fruit illustration was the dictionary entry for "Birne"

illustrated by the famous French painter and naturalist Paul Barruel and depicts an adult in mating plumage on the front

The print is a flap glued onto the book page along its left edge (the actual print is delineated in the second picture)

1970 Black & brown Rat Print by Paul Barruel small pink roses customs officers or even boyLovely vintage rat print. This rodent illustration is a book page from a book French Swiss book published in 1970 "Mammifres d'Europe", which means Mammal of Europe, illustrated by the famous French painter and naturalist Paul Barruel. It shows two species of rats, the black rat and the most popular brown rat or surmulot, which has so many other names it's impossible to cite them all. They are shown here on potatoes. Frame them and gift them to your