Title
Insecta Svecica et exotica
By
Gadamer, Hermann Friedrich Rudolf Heinrich, 1818-1885
Type
Book
Material
Archival material
Publication info
1846-1848
Notes
Title from spine.
Holograph.
91 leaves of hand-drawn, hand-coloured entomological illustrations, drawn from mainly specimens collected in and around Trolle-Ljungby and Arup, in Sweden. Leaves 1-33 feature coleoptera; leaves 34-40 orthoptera and hemiptera; leaves 41-91 lepidoptera. All three sections have their own hand-lettered title page, specifying date of execution and location.
Index follows illustrations.
Author's presentation inscription to daughter (?) on front endpaper (dated 1873).
Contents: Coleoptera Scanica (1847) -- Orthoptera et Hemiptera Scanica (1847-48) -- Lepidoptera Scanica (1846).
Subjects
Insects
,
Sweden
Call Number
QL 482 S8 G23 1848 folio AEU
Language
German
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/t.173009
OCLC:
702343476
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