The beautifully illustrated French edition of Seitz encyclopædia in a close to complete state!

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1 SEITZ, Adalbert.
Stuttgart, A. Kernen; Paris E. Le Moult, 1908-1945 (with pasted impressa of 'Paris, Cabinet 16 vols and 4 supplements. Folio (260 x 320 mm). Vols. I-V, IX & XIII (7 vols in 9 parts) are bound in contemporary full marbled light brown calf with gilt title on spine which is in 5 compartments, raised bands and marbled endpapers.  The other vols. are unbound. With in total 1266 beautiful chromolithographed full-page plates on which numerous butterflies are depicted. Full description >>

Related Subjects: 20th Century  Butterflies  Chromolithography  Entomology  French  Lithographs  Natural History 

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The dehydration of a coniferous forest

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2 TRZEBITZKY, Franz Xaver.
Prague, Heer, Ökonomisch-patriotischen Gesellschaft in Böhmen, Heerschen Buchhandlung, 1809. 8vo. Contemporary boards. With 3 folding engraved plates, contemporary handcoloured (numbered X-XII). (4), 59 pp. Full description >>

Related Subjects: Butterflies  Entomology  Forestry  Germany 

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Butterflies of Java, with 19 coloured specimens on 3 plates

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3 ZINCKEN (SOMMER), Julius Leopold T.F.
[Bonn, Weber, 1831]. 4to. Modern boards, red edges. With 19 numbered butterflies on 3 hand-coloured lithographed plates. [2], [131]-194 pp. Full description >>

Related Subjects: 19th Century  Butterflies 

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