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The Macrolepidoptera of the world. Stuttgart, Kernen Verlag, 1909-1954.
20 volumes (in 29). 4to. With 1458 chromolithographed plates.
Publisher’s half calf, gilt and unbound in portfolios (21 volumes
in publisher’s half calf and 8 volumes unbound in portfolio).
€ 12.000,00
A complete copy of this rare standard work on Macrolepidoptera
of which only one complete set has appeared at auction. The work
was published in 16 volumes with 4 supplements. Volumes 1-4 and
supplements describe the Palaerctic Fauna and volumes 5-16 describe
the Exotic Fauna.
The fine plates are made by process of 10-14 colour lithography, and its
excellent quality has remained unsurpassed. The editor Seitz planned to finish
the whole work in 1912.
This proved to be quite unrealistic as publication stopped in 1954,
17 years after the death of the author.Several volumes remained
unfinished. The most important collections of butterflies were consulted
such as the one of L.W. Rothschild of Tring, the British Museum,
the Paris Natural History Museum, the Senckenberg Museum at Frankfurt,
as well as collections in Tokyo, Hong-Kong, Australia, South &
North America etc.
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