Natuurlijke en naar het leven nauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschrijvingen der spoken, wandelende bladen, zabel-springhanen, krekels, trek-springhanen en kakkerlakken in alle vier deelen der wereld, Europa, Asia, Afrika en Amerika huishoudende. Representation exactement colorée d'après nature des spectres ou phasmes, des mantes, des sauterelles, des grillons, des criquets et des blattes. Qui se trouve dans les quatre parties du monde. L'Europe, l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amérique. [1e - 4e geslacht].

Amsterdam, J. C. Sepp, 1787. 4to (28.6 x 24.1 cm). Title page; pp. [9, 74; 28; 38]; 58 fine hand-coloured engraved plates [I-XXV; I.a-XIII.a; I.b-XX.b.]. Contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spine with five raised bands with gilt borders. = A work renowned for it fine, large, detailed, and beautifully coloured plates. This copy contains the first four "geslachten" (literally genera, but actually families and suborders), viz., the parts on "Spooken" and "Wandelende bladen", "Zabelsprinkhaanen" and "Treksprinkhaanen", with the 58 plates concerning these insects), with all text except the index. Neither present are the parts on "Krekels en Kakkerlakken". Much rarer than Stoll's works on "Wantzen" and "Cicaden" (Hemiptera). Caspar Stoll was born in Hessen-Kassel between 1725 and 1730 and lived in The Hague and later in Amsterdam. William V of Orange-Nassau was the godfather of two of his children. He was "Commies ter Admiraliteit" in Amsterdam and published several works on entomology. A note on the rear pastedown indicates that this copy is from the library of Henk Mac Gillavry; probably the Dutch palaeontologist Henry James "Henk" Mac Gillavry (1908-2012). Rebacked with new marbled endpapers and the old spine mounted. Otherwise contents fine. Hagen II, pp. 198-199; Horn-Schenkling, 21555; Landwehr 192; Nissen ZBI, 4002.