Bd. 1, Heft 1 has added t.p. with imprint: Zürich : bey Joh. Caspar Fuessly, 1782

Bd. 3 issued in 4 pts., 1799-1804

Plates engraved by Schellenberg, P. Haas, L. Schmidt, and J.D. Heidenreich; plates drawn by Herbst and Guimpel

Engraved title vignettes (Bde. 1-2), woodcut head- and tail-pieces; side-notes

Some errors in paging

An index to the whole work is at the end of Bd. 2

For more information on the publication of this work, see C.D. Sherborn's article in Index animalium I (1902), p. xxix; also M.J. Rathbun's article in Proc. biol. Soc. Wash. XI (1897), p. 157

Includes bibliographical references

BM (Nat. hist.)

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration

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SCNHRB has two copies

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088009154667, 39088009150368, 39088009154469) has hand-colored plates

SCNHRB c. 1 has a short clipping from M.J. Rathbun's article in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XI (1897) mounted on the front free endpaper of Bd. 1, providing the date of issue, no. of plates, signatures, and page numberings of each Heft from this work

SCNHRB c. 1 has stamps: Library, Division of Crustacea; Library, U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Sept. 22, 1891. With accession no. (for all 3 v.): 140392

SCNHRB c. 1 has some ms. annotations in the margins of the text and on the plates

SCNHRB c. 1 has a brown buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine and marbled edges

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088016462996, 39088016463036, 39088016463077) Bde. title pages dated 1782, 1796, 1799

SCNHRB c. 2 lacking the main t.p. to Bd. 1 and all the plates

SCNHRB c. 2 inscribed in ink on t.p.s: Tho. Hardwicke

SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on t.p.s: Entomological Society of London

SCNHRB c. 2 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Dr. Rafael Lemaitre from the Library of Dr. Patsy A. McLaughlin (1932-2011)

SCNHRB c. 2 half bound in sheepskin and marbled paper boards

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