4to (240 x189mm). Half title, errata/binder’s instruction leaf, 50 engraved plates (47 hand-colored). (Some marginal browning and spotting to text, plates generally clean, with very minor toning to some extreme outer margins.)  19th-century boards (rebacked and recornered in modern calf with portion of contemporary spine laid down, rubbed). Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate.

 

French translation of a finely illustrated treatise on insects from the original German edition published in 1781-86. Nissen, ZBI 1455.