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<dl><dd>Introduction, Th. 1, p. xxii, dated 1829</dd>
<dd>Last vol. (unnumbered) called: Supplemente</dd>
<dd>"The text of this edition is mainly a re-issue of the first [published 1774-1794], but some of the sheets have been reprinted from fresh type"--Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) cat., v. 2, p. 541</dd>
<dd>This ed. contains 441 plates</dd>
<dd>Plates signed variously: H.I. Tyroff, Walwert, I.F. Volckart, L.S. Walbert, I.G. Sturm, I.G. Klinger, I. Leitner, I.C. Bock</dd>
<dd>Plates are hand-colored</dd>
<dd>Pagination: Th. 1: xxii, 388, 190 p., 123 leaves of plates; Th. 2: 234 p., 47 leaves of plates; Th. 3: 396 p., 94 leaves of plates; Th. 4: 698, 85 p., [124] leaves of plates (numbered 80-198, 99B, 105B, 117A, 125B and125C; also numbered: Noct. 1-119); Th. 5: 276 p., 52 leaves of plates; Supplemente: 120, 52, 104, 48 p</dd>
<dd>Includes bibliographical references and index</dd>
<dd>extracted picklist</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy has bookplates: Collection of William Schaus, presented to the National Museum MCMV</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy stamped on t.p.'s: Smithsonian Institution U.S. National Museum [acc. no.] 292896-292909</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy bound in red library buckram, marbled edges and endpapers, title in gilt on spine</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Lepidoptera; Butterflies</div>
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<dl><dd>Esper, Eugen Johann Christoph, 1742-1810</dd>
<dd>Charpentier, Toussaint von, 1779 or 80-1847</dd>
<dd>Tyroff, H. I., engraver</dd>
<dd>Walwert, Georg Christoph, 1748-1812, engraver</dd>
<dd>Volckart, J. F., engraver</dd>
<dd>Walbert, L. S., engraver</dd>
<dd>Sturm, Jakob, 1771-1848, engraver</dd>
<dd>Bock, Johann Carl, 1757-1843, engraver</dd>
<dd>Schaus, William, 1859- , former owner. DSI</dd></dl></div>
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