Heft 1 has imprint: Duisburg und Lemgo : Auf Kosten des Verfassers, und in Commission in der Meyerschen Buchhandlung, [1790]

Heft 2 was originally issued in 1790, other issues being cited for 1792, 1820, 1821, and 1829. Heft 3, issued in 1821, has other issues cited for 1822 and 1829. Cf. BM (Nat. hist.)

Collation of each Heft: Heft 1, [4], 47 p., XII leaves of plates; Heft 2, 47, [1] p., XIII leaves of plates; Heft 3, [2], II, 141, [3] p., XII [i.e. 13] leaves of plates

Plates drawn by Merrem, J.F. Hennig, Kessler, H. Kolbe, and W. Hergenroeder; engraving by L. Schmidt; lithography (Heft 3) by J. Korff and F. Welcker

Hand-colored illustrations

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration

BM (Nat. hist.)

GV (1700-1910)

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SCNHRB copy (39088009319757) has Heft 2, Aufl. 2, issued at Essen by G.D. Baedeker in 1829

SCNHRB copy has printed cancel slips pasted over the plate numbers on plates 1, III, and IV of Heft 3

SCNHRB copy has stamp: Smithsonian Institution; accession no.: 5827

SCNHRB copy has modern green cloth library binding with gilt-lettered spine

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