Der monatlich-herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigung

by Insects, August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof

$7,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. With hand-colored allegorical frontispiece in volume 1, additional hand-colored engraved titles volumes 2 and 3, uncolored engraved portrait frontispiece volume 4, and 358 hand-colored engraved plates on 287 leaves 3 double-page and one folding . 40 , 8 , 64, 8 , 60, 8 , 64, 8 , 304, 8 , 305-312, 48, 48, 24 ; 8 , 24, 72, 28, 16, 4 , 32, 8 , 76, 200 64, 52, 16 ; 8 , 624, 8 ; 12 , 48; 264, 4 pp. Lacking final leaf of index volume

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