Various folio, 4to, and 8vo sizes (sheets approximately 420 x 325 mm or smaller). 9 watercolors by Kollar, most tipped to cardboard backing; approximately 63pp. manuscript in German in ink, most in Kollar's hand, many on bifolia.  Loose in card portfolio with hand-lettering (some soiling and minor losses). 

A collection of original documents and watercolors by eminent Austrian entomologist Vincenz Kollar, including descriptions and illustrations of harmful insects, and depicting various wasps, beetles, larvae, flies, and moths. The watercolors, most of which include several illustrations on one sheet, are carefully executed.  The manuscript material includes several texts signed and dated by Kollar, and include one manuscript of Michael Babusnik, and another signed "Zimmerman." Kollar was Curator of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, where he worked primarily with insects collected on expeditions, particularly specimen from the Austrian Brazil Expedition of 1817-1835. The gall wasp was named Cynips Kollari in his honor.