1 v. : 31 cm

Title from spine

Holograph

91 leaves of hand-drawn, hand-coloured entomological illustrations, drawn from mainly specimens collected in and around Trolle-Ljungby and Arup, in Sweden. Leaves 1-33 feature coleoptera; leaves 34-40 orthoptera and hemiptera; leaves 41-91 lepidoptera. All three sections have their own hand-lettered title page, specifying date of execution and location

Index follows illustrations

Author's presentation inscription to daughter (?) on front endpaper (dated 1873)

Coleoptera Scanica (1847) -- Orthoptera et Hemiptera Scanica (1847-48) -- Lepidoptera Scanica (1846)

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