Author: Seitz, [F. J.] A.
Title: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine systematische Bearbeitung der Gross-Schmetterlinge in Verbindung mit namhaften Fachmännern herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. Adalbert Seitz. Abteilung II. Exotische Fauna. 5. Band. Die Amerikanischen Tagfalter. Mit 203 Tafeln.
Description: Stuttgart, Alfred Kernen, 1924. 4to. (33.3 x 26.0 cm) in two volumes (text and atlas). Titles to the Volume, and to the parts. viii, 1141, [iii] pp.; vi, [ii] pp.; 203 chromolithographed plates. Later externally uniform half morocco over iridescent silk boards. Gilt stippled bands and title on the spines. Atlas volume with patterened endpapers; text volume with white endpapers. = Single part - in two large volumes, text and atlas - 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 colourful diurnal American butterflies, or "Gross-Schmetterlinge". Plates are numbered 1-194, 100B, 101B, 102B, 102C, 110B, 113B, 120B, 120C, and 120D. Some wear and staining to the boards; several sections with the text and plate margins a bit soiled, with some thumbing; a few plates with the fore margin partly abraded (not reaching the printed images). Otherwise very good. Cat. BM(NH), p. 1895; Nissen ZBI, 3799N.

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