SCNHRB copy has fasc. 1-12, only, housed in 3 boxes; fasc. 1 and fasc. 2 are wanting their title leaves; the leaf of descriptive letterpress for plate 24 in fasc. 12 is also wanting

SCNHRB copy has the original printed red paper wrappers for fasc. 2 through fasc. 12. The fascicule number is handwritten on each wrapper

SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Dr. F. Christian Thompson

24 parts, 600 leaves of plates in various foliations : 9 x 16 cm

Issued in 24 fascicules, each of which consists of 25 leaves of plates accompanied by 25 leaves of descriptive letterpress

Fascicules 3-24 continued by E. F. Germar (fascicule 3, by E. F. Germar and Fr. Kaulfuss). Ahrens' name is dropped from the title page in fascicule 6

Fascicule 19 was also issued separately in 1837, and has special title page: Insectorum protogaeae specimen, sistens insecta carbonum fossilium

"Halae formis Friderici Grunerti"--Colophon

Date range of publication from Gesamtverzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Schrifttums (GV), 1700-1910, Band 2, Seite 332, and Band 45, Seite 364. In comparison, Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) (supplement) page 8, and Sherborn's Index animalium page lviii, give the date range as 1812-1847

"Enumeratio insectorum in centuria prima[-tertia] depictorum" ([12] pages)--Fascicule 1, preliminaries

Includes bibliographical references

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digitized BHLDP 20200218

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