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This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exotic butterflies using the Linnean system.
This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exotic butterflies using the Linnean system.
This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exotic butterflies using the Linnean system.
This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exotic butterflies using the Linnean system.
This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exotic butterflies using the Linnean system.
This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exotic butterflies using the Linnean system.
This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exotic butterflies using the Linnean system.
This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exotic butterflies using the Linnean system.
This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exotic butterflies using the Linnean system.
This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exotic butterflies using the Linnean system.
This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exotic butterflies using the Linnean system.

important history of entomology


CRAMER, Pieter; STOLL, Caspar.

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Amsterdam & Utrecht, J. Baalde and Barthelemy Wild [and] Nic. Th. Gravius, 1779-1791.

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This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exotic butterflies using the new system developed by Carl von Linné (1707-1778) for naming and classifying animals.

Pieter Cramer (1721-1776) was a wealthy Dutch Spanish wool merchant and entomologist who had a passion for insects. He built up a large collection, especially of butterflies, from Dutch traders and settlers in Surinam. Wishing to publish the rarest pieces of his collection, Cramer called upon Gerrit Wartenaar Lambertz who painted more than 1650 of the rarest specimens from the two Indies, Asia, Africa and America from his collection and from other Dutch collectors. With the help of the entomologist Caspar Stoll and the booksellers S. J. Baalde of Amsteldam and J. van Schoonhoven of Utrecht, who took on the publication at their own expense, the first issues appeared in 1775. Cramer died in 1776 before the publication was completed. Caspar Stoll took over the project, wrote the last part of the 4th volume (on the lepidoptera) and published a supplement on the caterpillars and chrysalids of Surinam in 1791.

Originally published in 34 parts gathered in 4 volumes from 1775 to 1782, this important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exotic butterflies using the new system developed by Carl von Linné (1707-1778) for naming and classifying animals. It is here enlarged by its supplement published in 1791. The plates show 1650 fine life-size specimens, drawn on the originals by Lambert, engraved and illuminated under the supervision of Pieter Cramer.

5 vols, 4to (29.3 x 24 cm); text in Dutch and French in two columns; with two frontispieces engraved by Th. Koning after J. Buys, including one enhanced in colour, hand-coloured title engraved by C.J. de Huyser, and 442 hand-coloured plates (42 of which are in the Supplement), with 10 titles including one engraved and hand-coloured, and two leaves of subscribers; beautifully bound in full contemporary red morocco (for the first 4 vols), spines with raised bands, richly decorated, titles, volume numbers and provenance in green morocco, gilt fillets on the boards and on the edges, gilt inner dentelle, all edges gilt, identical pastiche binding for the 5th volume (Supplement); a very good copy.

Graesse II, 294 ; Cohen, 262 ; Brunet, II, 404; Nissen 985; Quérard II, 329

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First edition of Edward Donovan's important and beautifully hand-coloured entomological work, Epitome of the Natural Histry of the Insects of China, published in 1798.
First edition of Edward Donovan's important and beautifully hand-coloured entomological work, Epitome of the Natural Histry of the Insects of China, published in 1798.

DONOVAN, Edward.
An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China: 1798.
£7,500.00

A handsomely bound set of John Obadiah Westwood's British Butterflies and British Moths, the classic colour-plate work on the subject.
A handsomely bound set of John Obadiah Westwood's British Butterflies and British Moths, the classic colour-plate work on the subject.

WESTWOOD, John Obadiah.
British Butterflies and their Transformations; [and] British Moths and their Transformations. 1857.
£1,250.00

British Butterflies and Their Transformations.
British Butterflies and Their Transformations.

WESTWOOD, John Obadiah; HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel (illus.)
British Butterflies and Their Transformations. 1841.
£950.00

"A scarce treasure for the collector", with hand-coloured lithographic plates of moths in a contemporary gilt-morocco binding.
"A scarce treasure for the collector", with hand-coloured lithographic plates of moths in a contemporary gilt-morocco binding.

[HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel].
The night-flyers. A series of moth pictures. n.d. circa 1860.
£1,800.00

First edition, 2 vols, 124 hand-coloured plates, occasional mild spotting otherwise very good; contemporary half green calf, maroon lettering-pieces gilt
First edition, 2 vols, 124 hand-coloured plates, occasional mild spotting otherwise very good; contemporary half green calf, maroon lettering-pieces gilt

HUMPHREYS, H.N.; WESTWOOD, J.O.
British Moths and their Transformations. 1843.
£750.00

The Natural history of British Insects established Donovan's reputation. It contains high quality plates illustrating the life-cycles of the insects,
The Natural history of British Insects established Donovan's reputation. It contains high quality plates illustrating the life-cycles of the insects,

DONOVAN, Edward.
The Natural History of British insects. 1796-1813.
£7,500.00

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