The Macrolepidoptera of the world. Division I: The Macrolepidoptera of the Palearctic Fauna. Volume III. The noctuid moths.

Stuttgart, Alfred Kernen, 1914. 4to (33.3 x 25.,8 cm). iii, 511 pp.; (v), 75 chromolithographed plates. Unbound in two portfolios (text and atlas). = 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. This parts deals with mostly quite colourful butterflies from the Old World temperate and Arctic zone. Many species are new. The author, 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. Unbound. Extremely useful for filling a gap in an existing series regardless of its type of binding. Cat. BM(NH), p. 1895; Nissen ZBI, 3799Na.