Faunae Insectorum Germanicae Initia: oder Deutchslands Insecten
by Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- Seller
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
Odd volume of one of the most beautiful miniature entomological books every published, Georg Panzer's Faunae Insectorum Germanicae Initia oder Deutschlands Insecten, circa 1800.
Volume VIII, with 157 handcoloured copperplates, Pl.1130-1286, Scarabaeus cylindricus to Rhinomacer lepturides.
Handwritten title page and index to parts 190 to 206b, 157 plates with printed explanatory text pages.
Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer (1755-1829) was a German entomologist, physician in Hersbruck and lecturer at the Collegium Medicum in Nuremberg. "There does not exist a more accurate or useful work. The figures are drawn and etched by the famous Jacob Sturm, the best entomological artist on the continent" (Swainson).
Bookplate of Donald MacGillavry, a famous Dutch collector.
Small loss to top of spine and part of leather title on spine, binding solid, text and plates mostly clean and bright, stain to plate 1165, and 8cm loss to top of text to plate 1276, Curculio gracilipes.
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- Bookseller
- Florilegius (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FLO156
- Title
- Faunae Insectorum Germanicae Initia
- Author
- Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer
- Illustrator
- Jacob Sturm
- Format/Binding
- Half leather and marble boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Felseckerschen Buchhandlung
- Place of Publication
- Nurnberg
- Date Published
- 1793-1823
- Size
- 12.5cm x 9.5cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- insect, beetle, entomology, Panzer, Sturm, copperplate, engraving, miniature, illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
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