‎Spuler, A.‎
‎Die Schmetterlinge Europas [AND] Die Raupen der Schmetterlinge Europas. Dritte Auflage von E. Hofmann's gleichnamigem Werk.‎

‎1908-1910 Four volumes in four. cxxviii, 385, 523, [2] p., 113, 239 figures; 95, 60 chromolithographed plates, uniform modern brown half cloth, author/title in gilt on spine. Library stamps on endpapers, signature of the Dutch naturalist W.C. van Heurn. A few caption pages to the plates with repaired tears. A few plates with very fine speckles, but majority clean. Tightly bound complete copy.This is the final and best edition of Hofmann's work "Die Grossschmetterlinge Europas", with all the fine coloured lithographed plates, including the important fourth volume of the "Raupen" or caterpillars (with 50 plates), reworked by Arnold Spuler, and its "Nachtrag" (with another 10 plates). These caterpillar parts are often lacking. The various families were treated by several experts, e.g. Geometridae by H. Rebel, and Tortricidae by J. von Kernel.‎

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