HUEBNER, Jacob. Geschichte Europäischer Schmetterlinge . [Augsburg: 1793]. 4 volumes, 4° (255 x 198mm.). Hand-coloured engraved title in first volume, and 447 hand-coloured engraved plates only. (Lacks text, some leaves very slightly soiled or spotted.) Contemporary mottled calf (slightly worn, splits in hinges). Provenance : Greenfield of Kingswinford (armorial bookplate). Nissen ZBI 2038 calls for 500 plates with 32 pages of text, and states that the work was continued by C. Geyer until 1842. Another work entitled Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge was published between 1796 and 1838 containing 789 plates. (4)
HUEBNER, Jacob. Geschichte Europäischer Schmetterlinge . [Augsburg: 1793]. 4 volumes, 4° (255 x 198mm.). Hand-coloured engraved title in first volume, and 447 hand-coloured engraved plates only. (Lacks text, some leaves very slightly soiled or spotted.) Contemporary mottled calf (slightly worn, splits in hinges). Provenance : Greenfield of Kingswinford (armorial bookplate). Nissen ZBI 2038 calls for 500 plates with 32 pages of text, and states that the work was continued by C. Geyer until 1842. Another work entitled Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge was published between 1796 and 1838 containing 789 plates. (4)
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