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recognisable. It was catalogued in 1912 at £40 and £47 10s. 

 and recently at £60. Dr. Chapman's copy brought at auction 

 £42, and the last previous copy that came into the market, 

 from the library of F. D. Godman, certainly very beautifully 

 bound, was acquired by the writer for a considerably higher 

 figure. Herrich Schaffer's work is much scarcer, at any rate 

 in Britain, than that of his predecessor Hiibner. 

 Hiibner, Jacob. Sammlung Europaischer-Schmetterlinge ; 1 vol. 

 of text and 789 coloured plates ; Augsburg, 1796-1841. The 

 most important work ever issued on European Lepidoptera. 

 The plates are all hand-coloured and are extremely beautiful. 

 From the great number of types named and figured the work is 

 indispensable to the student. It is unfortunately rare. 

 Apparently only a small number of copies were issued. The 

 list of subscribers in my copy, which was formerly in the library 

 of the Rev. W. Bree, is given at 69 only, and as several of those 

 named took four, and one six, copies the names evidently 

 included those of booksellers as well as private individuals. 

 I fancy we have more copies in Britain than the continentals 

 possess, in proportion of course to our population, for I know 

 of at least a dozen in Britain, of which more than half are in 

 public libraries. The work is at present catalogued at from 

 £50 to £68, the price depending upon the amount of text and 

 number and condition of plates. Most of the copies contain 

 the full number of plates, but the text — fortunately this is 

 not extremely important from the student's point of view — is 

 apt to be very fragmentary, copies with full text being extremely 

 rare ; I know of only two in Britain. 



Hiibner, J. Geschichte Europaischer Schmetterlinge ; Augsburg, 

 1796-1841 or 1842. The most beautiful work ever devoted 

 to the earlier stages. It is extremely scarce. The number of 

 plates varies greatly — more so than in any other work I am 

 acquainted with. Hagen gives 449 and probably this is about 

 the usual number, but I have seen a copy with 500 plates ; on 

 the other hand that of Dr. Chapman, which is in my possession — 

 formerly it belonged to Fredk. Bond — contains only 126. A 

 copy with 447 plates was catalogued in 1912 at £37 10s. ; one 

 with the same number in 1922, £42, and one with 500, £60. 



Hiibner, J. Sammlung auslesener Vogel und Schmetterlinge ; 

 100 coloured plates; Augsburg, 1792. An extremely quaint 

 old book, mostly devoted to birds, as its title suggests, but 

 each of the plates, or many of them, contain a figure of one or 

 more lepidoptera, and as many of these are the type figures, 

 the book is valuable. Unfortunately it is extremely rare, one 

 of the very rarest books on the subject in fact. I believe the 

 only copy in Britain is the one in the library of Lord Rothschild. 



