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Die ausländische oder die ausserhalb Europa zur Zeit in den übrigen Welttheilen vorgefundene Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Erster Theil
by Esper, Eugenius Johann Christoph
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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IVER, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Erlangen: Wolfgang Walther, 1801. [i]-title page, [1]-blank, 254, 63 hand-col engraved plates. . HB. 4to, cont. half leather, neatly rebacked, preserving original spine, raised bands, gilt-tooled decoration to compartments, red leather title-piece, speckled, paper-covered boards, all edges tinted red. Some wear to corners; minor foxing to title page and occasionally elsewhere; some text leaves with faint old water stain to lower edge. Plates mounted so that they may be folded out and viewed at the same time as the text (stilted). Plates clean and bright. Bookplate of later owner. Fine.. Part 1 (all published). First edition. Rare. The fine plates, after drawings by Esper, are delicately hand-coloured, and engraved by J.C. Bock, J.G. Sturm, H.J. Tyroff, and others. Each plate illustrates between two and four different butterflies, some also including their larvae, foodplants and pupae.Eugen Johann Christoph Esper (1742-1810) was a German entomologist and phycologist, professor of zoology at Erlangen University.Horn Schenkling 6085, Nissen ZBI, 1317.Bound with: Friedrich Eugenius Esper, <b><i>Beobachtungen an einer neuentdeckten Zwitterphaläne des </i>Bombyx Crataegi</b>, Erlangen, Wolfgang Walther, 1778, 20 pp., 1 hand-coloured engraed plate.Horn Schenkling 6093..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A40565
- Title
- Die ausländische oder die ausserhalb Europa zur Zeit in den übrigen Welttheilen vorgefundene Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Erster Theil
- Author
- Esper, Eugenius Johann Christoph
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Wolfgang Walther
- Place of Publication
- Erlangen
- Date Published
- 1801
- Keywords
- ABA02-2024; Butterflies; Rhopalocera; Lepidoptera; Hand-coloured plates
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About Pemberley Natural History Books
Pemberley Books
Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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