Title vignette, engraved Plates I-XXXII are a reissue of those published in Sulzer's Abgekürtzte Geschichte der Insecten. Winterthur, 1776 Some of the plates are signed: Schellenberg fec The plates are usually hand-colored Signatures: piA-KL(-L6) The final p. is blank Includes bibliographical references and indexes extracted picklist SCNHRB has two copies SCNHRB c. 1 (39088002178804) has uncolored plates SCNHRB c. 1 has embossed stamp: Smithsonian Institution National Museum; accession no.: 152226 SCNHRB c. 1 has a modern half-leather binding with brown decorated paper boards and a gilt-lettered spine SCNHRB c. 2 (39088002178812) has hand-colored plates (except for XXXVII), and the title vignette is also hand-colored SCNHRB c. 2 has bookplate: Collection of William Schaus presented to the National Museum MCMV. With embossed stamp: Smithsonian Institution National Museum; accession no.: 199718 SCNHRB c. 2 has a modern black quarter-leather binding with blue paste-paper boards; a gilt-tooled red leather spine label; marbled endpapers; and all edges gilt