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STOLL, Caspar (d.1795).[Works.] Amsterdam and Utrecht: 1775-1813. Comprising: CRAMER, Pieter (1721-1776) and C. STOLL. De Uitlandische kapellen ... Papillons exotiques . Amsterdam and Utrecht: S.J. Baalde and Barthelemy Wild [volumes I-IV] and Amsterdam: Nicolaas Th. Gravius [volume V], [1775]-1779-1791. 39 parts in 5 volumes [including Aanhangsel Supplément ], 4° (288 x 230mm). Text in Dutch and French in parallel columns. Volumes I-IV with 2 letterpress titles, engraved additional title by Th. Koning after Jacobus Buys in volume I. 4-page list of subscribers bound in at the front of volume I. 442 hand-coloured engraved plates after Gerrit Wartenaar Lambertsz., type-ornament head- and tailpieces. (Scattered light spotting, light damp-marking affecting upper margins of some leaves, many plates trimmed at head affecting number, lacking second additional title in volume I, volume II additional title, and 4-page revised list of subscribers in volume III.) Provenance : names added to most figures in ink or pencil in an early 19th-century hand; occasional pencilled annotations to the text in French in the same hand. FIRST EDITIONS. Landwehr notes that 'one may conclude [from the subscribers list] that an edition of 500 copies was printed' ( Dutch Books with Coloured Plates , p.50). BM(NH) V, p.2028; Brunet II, 404; Landwehr Dutch Books with Coloured Plates 53 (giving title-page date of 1781 for volumes III-IV); Nissen ZBI 985. R C. STOLL [and Martinus HOUTTUYN (b.1720)]. Natuurlijke en naar het leven nauwkeurige gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschrijvingen der spoken, wandelende bladen, zabelspringhanen, krekels, trekspringhanen en kakkerlakken ... Repr[é]sentation exactement colorée d'après nature des spectres ou phasmes, des mantes, des sauterelles, des grillons, des criquets et des blattes . Amsterdam: J.C. Sepp and Son, [1788]-1813. 2 volumes bound in one, 4° (280 x 230mm). Half-titles. Text in Dutch and French in parallel columns. Engraved hand-coloured additional titles and 70 plates. (Occasional light spotting or marking, some plates cropped affecting image or number, volume I title bound in before volume II, part iii, volume II bound before volume I.) FIRST EDITION. BM(NH) V, p.2028; Brunet V, col.549; Landwehr Dutch Books with Coloured Plates 192; Nissen ZBI 4002. C. STOLL. Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde af beeldingen en beschryvingen der cicaden ... Représentation exactement colorée d'après nature des cigales . Amsterdam: Jan Christiaan Sepp, 1788. 4° (288 x 230mm). Text in Dutch and French in parallel columns. Engraved hand-coloured additional title and 29 plates. (Scattered light spotting, additional title cropped with slight loss of image, a few plates cropped touching number.) BM(NH) V, p.2028; Brunet V, col.549; Nissen ZBI 3999. C. STOLL. Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der wantzen ... Représentation exactement coloriée d'après nature des punaises . Amsterdam: J.C. Sepp, 1788. 4° (288 x 230mm). Text in Dutch and French in parallel columns. Engraved hand-coloured additional title and 41 plates, some heightened with gold or gum arabic. (Scattered light spotting, additional title cropped with slight loss of image, a few plates cropped touching number.) FIRST EDITION. BM(NH) V, p.2028; Brunet V, col.549; Nissen ZBI 4000. Together 7 volumes. Uniformly bound in early 19th-century green morocco gilt [?by J. Wright, vide infra ], the covers with deep borders of butterfly and flower tools within narrow and broad rules, gilt board edges, roll-tooled gilt turn-ins, the spines gilt in compartments, contrasting gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2, the others with central fleurons surrounded by smaller tools, gilt edges (spine slightly faded, lightly dampspotted, a few minor scuff marks). A COMPLETE, UNIFORMLY-BOUND SET OF STOLL'S WORKS, all but Cicaden first editions. Although the binding is unsigned, the clear similarity between the two types of larger butterf