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1883 Buch der Schmetterlinge und Raupen
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
In the original German, in black letter type.
A wonderfully illustrated edition of this German language study of butterflies and caterpillars, by Heinrich Rockstroh and E. L Taschenberg.
Illustrated with sixteen vibrant chromolithographic plates. Collated, complete.
With the bookplate of Geoffrey Miller to the front free endpaper.
First published two decades earlier, this is a beautifully illustrated late nineteenth century German language study of Lepidoptera, from an expert in the field.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards. Bumping to spine head and tail. Significant fading to back strip, with loss of cloth to back strip head, and small splits in the cloth to the joints. Boards age toned, with loss of paper covering to tail of front board. Hinges lightly strained. Bookplate to front pastedown. Losses to front and rear free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.
Good
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