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(Band 2): ... welcher acht Classen verschiedener sowohl inländischer, als auch einiger ausländischer Insecte enthält

Rösel von Rosenhof, August Johann, Kleemann, Christian Friedrich Carl, Rösel von Rosenhof, August Johann [Hrsg.] · 1749 · 80 pictures

This is an 18th-century German natural history volume on insects, the second band of Rösel von Rosenhof's work, edited by Kleemann and published in 1749 for naturalists and collectors. Its hand-coloured copperplate plates show beetles, cicadas and planthoppers, with numbered figures and Latin-style labels, offering a designer precise botanical-style specimen layouts, scattered arrangements on cream paper, and delicate wing venation.

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