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Lot 63
Sale 1022 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 4, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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PANZER, Georg Wolfgang Franz (1755-1829). Symbolae Entomologicae… cum tabulis XII. aeneis. Erlangen: Johann Jacob Palm, 1802.
4to (245 x 204mm). Title-pages in Latin and German. 12 hand-colored engraved plates at end by Jacob Sturm and Valentine Bischoff. (Minor soiling.) some light toning to text. Contemporary German sheep-backed boards, spine with gilt insect motifs in panels (spine ends and hinges repaired, minor wear at board edges).
Comprises the fifth part of Johann Eusebius Voet’s Beschreibungen und Abbildungen hartschaaligter Insekten Coleoptera Linn. The text includes a scientific description of the individual beetles in Latin with a commentary on the different species in German. Nissen, ZBI 4260.
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil