[Entomology] Rösel von Rosenhof, A.J. De natuurlyke historie der insecten

Dutch ed. and transl. by C.F.C. KLeemann (Rösel's son-in-law). Haarlem and Amst., C.H. Bohn and H. de Wit etc., n.d. (1765-1788), 5 parts in 4 vols., (24),568,(8); (10),580,(8); (2),573,(6); (10),XXXI,(5),220; (4),XXVI,260 p., w. 3 handcol. engr. frontisp., engr. portrait of Rösel and 359 finely handcol. engr. ills. on (fold.) plates, 20th cent. hleather, 4to. Lacks the "Voorrede" of vol. 3, two htitles and 3 divisional titles, otherwise a good, almost entirely untrimmed copy, most of the plates protected by tissue-guards w. manuscript Latin names, occas. stains, minor other internal and external defects.

Landwehr, Col. Plates 161; Hagen II, p. 64 and cf. p. 63-64 (German ed.); Horn/ Schenkling 18267 and cf. 18267, 11853, 11854 (German ed.); Nissen, ZBI 3467 and cf. 3466 (German ed.). First Dutch edition of one of the finest works on insects ever produced. Compared with the original German edition (Nuremburg, 1746-1792), the Dutch edition is printed on better and larger paper and the plates are more carefully coloured, probably personally by Kleeman and his wife. The work is for the greater part devoted to butterflies, but the third and fourth volumes also discuss lobsters, scorpions, polyps and spiders. (total 4)