Author: Seitz, [F. J.] A.
Title: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine systematische Bearbeitung der bis jetzt bekannten Gross-Schmetterlinge in Verbindung mit namhaften Fachmännern herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. Adalbert Seitz. I. Palaeartkische Fauna. Supplement zu Band 2. Die Palaearktischen Spinner und Schwärmer. Supplement.
Description: Stuttgart, Alfred Kernen, 1933. 4to (33.0 x 25.5 cm). title pages; vii, 315, (iii) pp.; 16 chromolithographed plates. Publisher's pebbled half calf over linen boards; spine rich gilt with lepidopteral vignette, gilt ornamental bands and dark green morocco label with gilt title. Olive marbled endpapers. Plates bound in green grained soft cover with gilt title on the front cover; preserved in a green sleeve on the rear pastedown. = Single - seldom seen - part 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 is supplemental to the second volume, containig corrections and addition descriptions and illustrations of often very colourful moths. First few laves a bit wavy (but no damp-staining), otherwise an excellent copy - clean, as published. Cat. BM(NH), p. 1895; Nissen ZBI, 3799N.

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