Author: Seitz, [F. J.] A.
Title: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine systematische Bearbeitung der Gross-Schmetterlinge der ganzen Welt. Abteilung I. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge des Palaearktischen Faunengebietes. Volume IV. Die Spannerartigen Nachtfalter.
Description: Stuttgart, Alfred Kernen, 1915. 4to (32.3 x 26.0 cm). In two volumes (text and atlas). (iii), v, 479 pp.; 25 chromolithographed plates. Publisher's uniform gilt-bordered pebbled half calf over linen boards; spines rich gilt with lepidopteral vignette, gilt ornamental bands and blue morocco label with gilt title. Brown marbled endpapers. = Single volume - in two parts, both in mint state - of one of the largest and most beautifully illustrated works on butterflies and moths. Its fine plates were made using the process of 10-14 colour lithography, and its excellent quality has remained unsurpassed. The editor, Friedrich Joseph Adalbert Seitz (1860-1938), planned to finish the whole work in 1912. This proved to be quite unrealistic as publication stopped in 1954, and several volumes remained unfinished. The most important collections of butterflies were consulted including those of L. W. Rothschild of Tring, the British Museum, the Paris Natural History Museum, the Senckenberg Museum at Frankfurt, as well as collections in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Australia, South- and North America, etc. This part deals with Palaearctic geometrid moths and is of importance because of its extensive descriptions and detailed illustrations of new and poorly known species. This work is uncommon in its sumptuous publisher's binding, as in this set. This, however, is a truly mint set and definitely rare in this superior state. Cat. BM(NH), p. 1895; Nissen ZBI, 3799N.

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