Caspar Stoll's study of stick insects, 70 plates
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Author: Stoll, Caspar
Title: Natuurlijke... Afbeeldingen en Beschrijvingen der Spoken, Wandelende Bladen... /Representation exactement colore d'apres nature des Spectres ou Phasmes, des Mantes, des Sauterelles, des Grillons, des Criquets et des Blattes....
Place Published: Amsterdam
Publisher:Chez J.C. Sepp et Fils
Date Published: 1813
Description: [4], 79, 28, 42, 8, 8, 14 pp. Text in Dutch and French in parallel columns. Hand-colored engraved title page with 70 hand-colored engraved entomological plates (numbered 1-25; 1a-13a; 1b-23b; 1c-4c; 1d-5d). 28.5x23.5 cm (11¼x9¼"), rebound in leather-backed blue buckram. all edges gilt.Caspar Stoll's study of stick insects, mantids and their relatives, illustrated with wonderful hand-colored engravings. Ownership marks dated 1821 on front free endpaper. Pencil annotations naming each species on plates.
Author: Stoll, Caspar
Title: Natuurlijke... Afbeeldingen en Beschrijvingen der Spoken, Wandelende Bladen... /Representation exactement colore d'apres nature des Spectres ou Phasmes, des Mantes, des Sauterelles, des Grillons, des Criquets et des Blattes....
Place Published: Amsterdam
Publisher:Chez J.C. Sepp et Fils
Date Published: 1813
Description: [4], 79, 28, 42, 8, 8, 14 pp. Text in Dutch and French in parallel columns. Hand-colored engraved title page with 70 hand-colored engraved entomological plates (numbered 1-25; 1a-13a; 1b-23b; 1c-4c; 1d-5d). 28.5x23.5 cm (11¼x9¼"), rebound in leather-backed blue buckram. all edges gilt.Caspar Stoll's study of stick insects, mantids and their relatives, illustrated with wonderful hand-colored engravings. Ownership marks dated 1821 on front free endpaper. Pencil annotations naming each species on plates.
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Caspar Stoll's study of stick insects, 70 plates
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