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The first scientific work on Hemiptera, with 70 hand-coloured, detailed plates of insects

STOLL, Caspar. Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der cicaden en wantzen, in alle vier waerelds deelen Europa, Asia, Africa en America huishoudende.
Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp, [1780-]1788. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to (ca. 28.5 x 23 cm). With 40 handcoloured plates of insects and a handcoloured floral frontispiece at the start of each volume. Comprising:
(1) STOLL, Caspar. Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der cicaden.
Amsterdam, J. C. Sepp, 1788.
(2) STOLL, Caspar. Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der wantzen.
Amsterdam, J. C. Sepp, 1788. Contemporary gold-tooled brown calf. 124; 172 pp. Full description
€ 4,950
Insects & Spiders
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One of the theses defended under the professorship of Thunberg in Uppsala

THUNBERG, Carl Peter (praeses) and Petruus Magnus ACKSELL. Fauna Chinensis. Quam venis. exp. Facult. Med. Upsal. Praeside C.P. Thunberg ... P.P. Petrus Magnus Acksell a Sacris Med. Theolog. Gestricio Helsingus. In Audit. Botanico die XII Junii MDCCCXXIII.
Uppsala, Palmblad et C, [1823]. 4to. Unbound. [4], 8 pp. Full description
€ 1,850
Amphibians & Reptiles Birds - Ornithology China Faunas & General Zoology Insects & Spiders Mammals VOC
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"Pioneering botanical, entomological, and petrographic observations"

TOWNSON, Robert. Travels in Hungary, with a short account of Vienna in the year 1793.
London, G. G. & J. Robinson, 1797 4to. With a folding hand-coloured engraved map, 16 engraved plates (some folding), and a folding engraved table. Modern half calf with gold on red spine label, marbled sides. xviii, [1], 506 pp. Full description
€ 2,000
Austria Central Europe Czech Republic & Slovakia Earth Sciences Floras & General Botany Insects & Spiders Travel & Voyages Europe Wine / Viticulture
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Beautiful and imporant treatise on entomology, with 120 colour plates

WILKES, Benjamin. One hundred and twenty copper-plates of English moths and butterflies, representing their changes into the caterpillar, chrysalis, and fly-states, and the plants, flowers, and fruits, whereon they feed. Coloured with great exactness from the subjects themselves. With a natural history of the moths and butterflies, describing the method of managing, preserving, and feeding them.
London, R. N. Rose (printed by G. Verrall, Worthing), 1824. 4to. With 120 engraved plates (mainly 27.5 x 22.5 cm) hand-coloured for the author. Mid-19th-century half gold-tooled dark green morocco. VIII, [22], 63, [5] pp. Full description
€ 12,500
Butterflies / Lepidoptera Insects & Spiders UK - United Kingdom
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