(Band 4,1): Der europäischen Schmetterlinge Vierten Theils erster Band welcher die Eulenphalenen von Tom. IV. Tab. LXXX. Noct. 1. - Tom. IV. Tab. CXXV. Noct. 46 und Die Bogen A bis Aaa enthält
This is a hand-coloured 1786 German entomology volume by Eugen Johann Christoph Esper, issued in Erlangen for naturalists and collectors, cataloguing European owlet moths (Eulenphalenen) with numbered plates. The pictures are precise, stiff-winged moth studies with fig. labels, showing wing patterns in pink, black and cream, plus caterpillars, cocoons and leaves set against plain paper, a useful reference for botanical-style natural history layouts and hand-tinted scientific plates.
