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Panzer, Georg Wolfgang Franz 1755-1829 Systematische Nomenclatur über weiland Herrn Dr. Jacob Christian Schäffers natürlich ausgemahlte Abbildungen regensburgischer Insekten Search this
Physical description:
3 volumes, CCLXXX leaves of plates colored illustrations 31 cm (4to)
Type:
Pictorial works
Early works to 1800
Place:
Germany
Regensburg
Date:
1779
Notes:
A supplemental work by G.W.F. Panzer, Systematische Nomenclatur über weiland Herrn Dr. Jacob Christian Schäffers natürlich ausgemahlte Abbildungen regensburgischer Insekten, was published at Erlangen in 1804
Illustrators include Loibel and H. Fischer; engravers include J.C. Bock, H. Bock, J.M. Fridrich, Johann Gottlieb Fridrich, J. Kellner, P. Küffner, J.N. Maag, F.N. Rolffsen, G.P. Trautner, and Tyroff
Includes index
Issued in parts between 1766 and 1779
Plates are hand-colored
Plates printed on both sides of the leaf
Second issue of the first edition (printed without the dedications, preface, and portrait of the author which were included in the first issue)
Hagen, H.A. Bibliotheca entomologica, volume 2, page 114
Horn & Schenkling. Index litteraturae entomologicae, Band 3, Seite 1053
Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, 3629
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SCNHRB copy (volume 1, 39088017988270; volume 2, 39088017988312; volume 3, 39088017988353) is accompanied by Panzer's Systematische Nomenclatur über weiland Herrn Dr. Jacob Christian Schäffers natürlich ausgemahlte Abbildungen regensburgischer Insekten (Erlangen: J.J. Palm, 1804), with same binding and provenance
SCNHRB copy has bookplates: 1. Ex libris J. d'Aguilar; signed Jeanne Esmein, no. 116 of 200; 2. Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment
SCNHRB copy has a few handwritten annotations in pencil
SCNHRB copy has a modern antique-style marbled paperboard binding with leather spine; raised bands; and gilt-tooled red leather spine label