1855 16 p., 3 hand-coloured plates, large 4to, original printed wrappers. Mounted in a contemporary board portfolio with handwritten title on front cover. The work includes a preface by J. T. C. Ratzeburg. The start of this work looked promising, but no more than the first to text parts and first three plates (all present here) were published. Cancelled library stamp on plate versos (not shining through), vage stamp in the margin of one plate, some foxing. Rare. Horn-Schenkling, 2456.