127 engr. hand-col. plates from an ed. of Johannes Goedaert's work on insects "Metamorphosis et historia naturalis insectorum" (different ed. in various languages from 1662). Bound in 1 vol., 12mo, 16,3 x 10 cm, later half leather, orig. flat...
Estimation :
250 / 350
Adjudication :
360 €
Description
gilt spine pasted on, green leather label titled "Van de rupsen", sp. eges. Sl. brown., some sm. marg. defects, 1 pl. torn with lack of paper.
Portrait of Goedaert engr. by Persyn and 126 unnumb. pl. in 3 sets with internal numeration (I-LXXIX + 1 not numb. i.e. 63 pl., 1-51 i.e. 42 pl., A-Z i.e. 21 pl.) representing num. insects, butterflies... after the author's drawings, all hand-col. "Metamorphosis..." by the Dutch painter Goedaert (1617-1668) was the 1st basic work on entomology and the 1st monograph on the Dutch insect fauna ill. with copper engr.
Portrait of Goedaert engr. by Persyn and 126 unnumb. pl. in 3 sets with internal numeration (I-LXXIX + 1 not numb. i.e. 63 pl., 1-51 i.e. 42 pl., A-Z i.e. 21 pl.) representing num. insects, butterflies... after the author's drawings, all hand-col. "Metamorphosis..." by the Dutch painter Goedaert (1617-1668) was the 1st basic work on entomology and the 1st monograph on the Dutch insect fauna ill. with copper engr.
