Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine systematische Bearbeitung der Gross-Schmetterlinge der ganzen Welt. Abteilung II. Exotische Fauna. Volume XIII: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter

Stuttgart, Kernen Verlag, 1925. 4to. (33.0 x 25.5 cm) in two volumes (text and atlas). Four title pages (to the volume, and to the parts); vii, 613 pp. (text part); [v] pp.; 80 chromolithographed plates (atlas part). Unbound in two marbled portfolios. = Single part of one of the largest and most beautifully illustrated works on butterflies and moths. Its fine plates were made using the process of 10-14 colour lithography, and its excellent quality has remained unsurpassed. The editor, Friedrich Joseph Adalbert Seitz (1860-1938), planned to finish the whole work in 1912. This proved to be quite unrealistic as publication stopped in 1954, and several volumes remained unfinished. The most important collections of butterflies were consulted including those of L. W. Rothschild of Tring, the British Museum, the Paris Natural History Museum, the Senckenberg Museum at Frankfurt, as well as collections in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Australia, South- and North America, etc. Very mild, marginal foxing to a few plate margins; a few text sections very mildly toned; otherwise very good, ready for binding. Cat. BM(NH), p. 1895; Nissen ZBI, 3799N.