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 Also tow pages now to include new stock
***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***
***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 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 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 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 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 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
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
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 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 £55 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 £55 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 £55 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 type="hidden">
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
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 £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
From the larger paper format
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
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 £55 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 £55 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 £55 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 type="hidden">
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