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CRAMER, Pietr (1721-1777) and Caspar STOLL (d.1795)

Lot 181
12.07.2023 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 181 | CRAMER, Pietr (1721-1777) and Caspar STOLL (d.1795)
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CRAMER, Pietr (1721-1777) and Caspar STOLL (d.1795)

De uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen... Papillons exotiques des trois parties du monde l’Asie, l’Afrique et l’Amerique. Amsterdam and Utrecht: S.J. Baalde and Barthelemy Wild, [1775-] 1779-1782 [-1784].

A very clean, crisp first edition of Cramer and Stoll’s encyclopaedic work on foreign butterflies. Landwehr notes that ‘one may conclude [from the subscribers list] that an edition of 500 copies was printed’ (p.50). BM(NH) V, p.2028; Brunet II, 404; Landwehr Dutch Books with Coloured Plates 53 (giving title-page date of 1781 for volumes III-IV); Nissen ZBI 985.



6 volumes, comprising 4 vols of text bound in 2, and 4 vols of plates, quarto (300 x 257mm). Text in Dutch and French in parallel columns. All volumes with letterpress titles, engraved additional title by Theodore Koning after Jacobus Buys (1724-1801) in vol. I, 4pp. list of subscribers bound in at the front of vol. I, 400 hand-coloured engraved plates after Gerrit Wartenaar Lambertsz (1747-1803) interleaved with contemporary blue paper, type-ornament head- and tailpieces (without the supplement published 1787-1791; immaculate, very crisp copy, small marginal chip at leaf 2I1 of volume IV, lacking second engraved additional title in volume II, and 4pp. revised list of subscribers in volume III). Contemporary half calf over speckled boards, spine in 7 compartments gilt with red morocco labels (extremities lightly rubbed, heads, tails and joints of a few volumes cracking). Provenance: 19th-century annotations of names of specimens on interleaves and paper slips loosely inserted.





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