Hand-coloured plates of butterflies Wilhelm 1797

HAND-COLOURED PLATES OF BUTTERFLIES. (WILHELM, Gottlieb Tobias). Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte. Der Insecten. Vol II. Augsburg (in der Mark. Engelbrechtischen Kunsthandlung) 1797.
8vo (170x95 mm). (2, engraved title), (1)-424 pp.
1 engraved title leaf with vignettes, 1 uncoloured folding plate (small loss), 51 hand-coloured engraved plates (not complete, partly dampstained in the beginning, some offsetting and spotting, many with outer margin worn).
Blue paper boards, worn and partly damaged, lacking spine. Text with some dampstaining in the beginning. Bookplate of Mag. Sanmuel Riedtmann.

See text. Not complete.