Jablonsky (1756-1787) Butterflies

These engravings are with original hand colouring from drawings by Carl Gustav Jablonsky (1756-1787) and Krüger. Carl Gustav Jablonsky and Johann F.W. Herbst (1743-1807) were also the editors, Ludwig Schmidt et al. the engravers. The book was entitled " Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten: Schmetterlinge" [Natural History Survey of Insects, Including Related Foreign Ones: Butterflies] Published by Pauli + Reimer, in Berlin between 1783-1804 These prints are from a major entomological work on exotic and European butterflies, originally published with 328 plates and rescued from fragments (hnec the condition of a few) . . Butterflies and other insects were illustrated in hand-coloured print sets for biologists, as well as for aristocrats interested in learning about the latest discoveries of flora and fauna. Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806. Size of engravings 8.25 x 10.25 inches, overall 7 x 8.75 inches, plate mark

Due to the change in the Latin names etc These will be listed by plate number and large enough images to read used or I will go nuts. From a part set beetles at the end
***Priced in two formats large butterflies  @ £80 (cost more but are on smaller pages with 1 cm margin around the platemark ) smaller butterflies @ £55 including postage so discounted if bought in quantity***


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  III  Pap[ilio] Eq[ues] Troj[anus] Remus

 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  XL  Pap[ilio] Eq[ues] Troj[anus] Menestheus / the western emperor swallowtail
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  1  Pap[ilio] Eq[ues] Troj[anus] Priamus /common green birdwing, Cape York birdwing, Priam's birdwing
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery  smudge @ base of wing


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  1V  Pap[ilio] Eq[ues] Troj[anus] Amphimedon /
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  XLVI  Pap[ilio] Eq[ues] Troj[anus] Brutus /
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  XLI  Pap[ilio] Eq[ues] Troj[anus] Polycaon /
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  XLIII  Pap[ilio] Eq[ues] Troj[anus] Antipathes
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery
 
Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  XLII  Pap[ilio] Eq[ues] Troj[anus] Chalcus /
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

  Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  XLIV  Pap[ilio] Eq[ues] Troj[anus] Miltiades /
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

  Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  XIV  Pap[ilio] Eq[ues] Troj[anus] Machaon /
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

  Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  LI  Pap[ilio] Eq[ues] Troj[anus] Ulysses /
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  II Pap[ilio] Eq[ues] Troj[anus]  Tr Remus 2/
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXXV  Papilio Consules Pylades
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXXIV  Papilio Consules Syphax
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXXII Papilio Consules Mathesius
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXXIII  Papilio Consules Aeropus
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXXVII  Papilio Consules Eualthus
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXII  Papilio Consules Mulciber
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery
 
ablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXIII  Papilio Consules Eurinome
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXVI  Papilio Consules Cleona
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXV  Papilio Consules Lotis
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXIV  Papilio Consules Similis
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXXI  Papilio Consules Anaxerethus
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXX Papilio Consules Sophora
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXXIX  Papilio Consules Cassiae
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

  Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXVIII  Papilio Consules Quiterius
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXVII  Papilio Consules Xanthus
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXLIX  Papilio Nobiles  Acontheus
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CLI  Papilio Nobiles  Zinghus
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CL  Papilio Nobiles  Hidora
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CLIII  Papilio Nobiles  Dirce
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery some soiling

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CLII  Papilio Nobiles  Cymodoce
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXIX Papilio Consules Midamus
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery spectacular but grubby
 
Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXXI  Papilio Consules  Eleusina
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery
Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  LII  Pap[ilio] Eq[ues] Troj[anus] Orsilichochus
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £60 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXX  Papilio Consules Superbus

Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery some marking

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXVIII  Papilio Consules  Cyperissias
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery marked worth cleaning

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXXVI  Papilio Consules  Opis
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXLIII  Papilio Consules  Orithea
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXLII  Papilio Consules  Veronica
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXLI  Papilio Consules Amphinomus

Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXL  Papilio Consules Eupalus
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXXIX  Papilio Consules Egyparissa

Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXXXVIII  Papilio Consules  Galathis
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXLIV  Papilio Consules  Ertyhmanthis
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £60 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXLVII  Papilio Consules  Mesenteria
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXLVIII  Papilio Consules  Cytherius
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXLVI  Papilio Consules  Lubentinus
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXLV  Papilio Consules  Meleagris
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

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differing paper colour




 
 
 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXCII  Papilio Praetores /Mermerius  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CCXVI Papilio Praetores /Prosperina  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CCXIV Papilio Praetores /Clytus  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £75 each inc delivery


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CCVI Papilio Praetores /Cyrillus  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CLXXXIII Papilio Praetores /Lachesis  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £80 each inc delivery


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate CLXXVI Papilio Praetores /AmarillisPapilio protenor, the Spangle,
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. The engravers are the same people who worked on Marcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery



 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXCIV  Papilio Praetores /Thamyrus Papilio protenor, the Spangle
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. The engravers are the same people who worked on Marcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery




 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CCXIII  Papilio Praetores /Phryneus  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. The engravers are the same people who worked on Marcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery
 
Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXCVI  Papilio Praetores /Mineus  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CCV Papilio Praetores /Climene  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CCIV Papilio Praetores /Cassus  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CCX Papilio Praetores /Pronoe  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CCVII  Papilio Praetores /Janirus  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CCVIII Papilio Praetores /Macra Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

;Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXIX Papilio Praetores /Phaedra  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery
 
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery
Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CCXVII Papilio Praetores /Brisces  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery

 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXCIII Papilio Praetores /Dorus Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXCVII  Papilio Praetores /Dejanirus Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXCV Papilio Praetores /Chloris Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXCVIII  Papilio Praetores /Hyperanthus  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CXC Papilio Praetores /Ida  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CLXXXV  Papilio Praetores /Evadne Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CLXXXVII  Papilio Praetores /Arcanius Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CC Papilio Praetores /Acteus Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CC Papilio Praetores /Afer Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CCIX Papilio Praetores /Medusa  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CLXXXIV Papilio Praetores /Ocirrhoe  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CCIII Papilio protenor, the spangle, is a butterfly found in India belonging to the swallowtail family.
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate CCVIII Papilio protenor Maera , the spangle
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery


CLXXXIX Papilio Praetores /Tiphon  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery


CC Papilio Praetores /Fidia Papilio protenor, the Spangle, is a  family of butterflies  found in India belonging to the swallowtail family.
 
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery



 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CCXII Papilio Praetores /Autonoe  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £75 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required


 Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CCXI Papilio Praetores /Manto  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. The engravers are the same people who worked on Marcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £75 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required



 


 Plate  CLXXXVII /187    Papilio Praetores /Pamphilus  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £75 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required  not blue just flash



  Jablonsky Butterfly   Plate  CCXV Papilio Praetores /Hermione  Papilio protenor, the Spangle,
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £55 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required




  Plate  CCXXX /230
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £25 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required


  Plate  I COLYOPTERA / BEETLES
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required


  Plate  1.1   COLYOPTERA / BEETLES
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required.


  Plate  1.II  COLYOPTERA / BEETLES
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required
 
  Plate  1.III  COLYOPTERA / BEETLES
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required


  Plate  1.IV  COLYOPTERA / BEETLES
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required


  Plate  1.V  Coccinellida
/ Ladybirds
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required


  Plate  1.VI  Coccinellida / Ladybirds
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required



  Plate  1.VII  Coccinellida / Ladybirds
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required



  Plate  1.VIII  Coccinellida / Ladybirds

Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required




  Plate  1.IX  Coccinellida / Ladybirds
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required




PARTS   Plate  N
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required





PARTS   Plate  M
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required
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PARTS   Plate  L
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required


PARTS   Plate  K
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required



PARTS   Plate  F
Original antique hand-coloured and exceptionally detailed  copper plate engravings on watermarked laid paper originally published with 328 plates from a rare work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky entitled Natursystem aller bekannten in-und ausländischen Insecten.One of the earliest and most comprehensive classifications of butterflies and insects according to the Linnaean taxonomy.  Carl Gustav Jablonsky was a naturalist who also served as private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. He edited the first two volumes of his major work on butterflies; the remaining nine volumes were edited by Johann F.W. Herbst, a German naturalist and entomologist, after Jablonsky's untimely death at age 31. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed most of the plates. Jablonsky also began the first complete survey of coleoptera, an order of insects including beetles, borers, weevils and fireflies, a project also taken over by Herbst and published between 1785 and 1806.  The engravers are the same people who worked onMarcus Elieser Bloch's Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, mainly  Ludwig Schmidt.The plate measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches, with original hand colouring & intact plate marks. Published by Pauli/Reimer, in Berlin: between 1783-1804    £45 each inc delivery less is a quantity are required crease top left corner
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