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PIETER CRAMER (d.1780) AND CASPAR STOLL (d.1795)
De Uitlandsche kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen ... Papillons exotiques des trois parties du monde l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amerique. Amsterdam and Utrecht: S.J. Baalde and Barthelemy Wild, [1775]-1779-1782 [Supplement: Amsterdam: Nicolaas Gravius, [1787]-1791]. 5 volumes (including Supplement), 4° (293 x 233mm). Parallel titles and text in Dutch and French, 4pp. preliminary subscribers' list in volume I, 4pp. corrected preliminary subscribers' list in volume II. One hand-coloured engraved additional title only (of 2), hand-coloured engraved section title, 442 hand-coloured engraved plates after Gerrit Wartenaar Lambertz., with occasional heightening in gilt. (Without hand-coloured engraved additional title in volume II, 22 plates shaved with loss of numbering.) Contemporary Dutch tree-calf backed marbled boards with brown cloth corners, the flat spines divided into six compartments by horizontal decorative roll flanked by single fillets, lettered in the second, numbered in the fourth, volumes I-IV with repeat overall decoration of linked wavy rolls forming linked lozenge frames with small single stars placed at the centre of each, volume V (the Supplement) approximately tooled to match (some wear to extremities, volumes I and IV neatly rebacked with original spines laid down, but volume IV with some loss to section of original lower spine).
A FINE UNSOPHISTICATED COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK ON THE EXOTIC LEPIDOPTERA OF ASIA, AFRICA AND AMERICA, ILLUSTRATING OVER 1650 DIFFERENT SPECIES. The first four volumes were issued in 34 parts between 1775 and 1782. Cramer died shortly before the issue of the 8th part and the work was taken over by Stoll. They relied on a large number of collectors in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Haarlem to supply the specimens and each plate generally included both the upper and lower views of the more interesting specimens. Landwehr calls for a second engraved additional title at the front of volume II: this is not present in either this copy or that held by the Natural History Museum, London, but was present in two of the three copies listed as having sold at auction. He does not record that there are at least two apparently preliminary states of the subscribers' list. The supplement deviated slightly from the working method of the earlier volumes in that it includes 22 plates that concentrate largely on the caterpillar and pupal stages of various specimens. BM(NH) I, p.398; Landwehr Dutch Books with Coloured Plates 53; Nissen ZBI 985. (5)
De Uitlandsche kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen ... Papillons exotiques des trois parties du monde l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amerique. Amsterdam and Utrecht: S.J. Baalde and Barthelemy Wild, [1775]-1779-1782 [Supplement: Amsterdam: Nicolaas Gravius, [1787]-1791]. 5 volumes (including Supplement), 4° (293 x 233mm). Parallel titles and text in Dutch and French, 4pp. preliminary subscribers' list in volume I, 4pp. corrected preliminary subscribers' list in volume II. One hand-coloured engraved additional title only (of 2), hand-coloured engraved section title, 442 hand-coloured engraved plates after Gerrit Wartenaar Lambertz., with occasional heightening in gilt. (Without hand-coloured engraved additional title in volume II, 22 plates shaved with loss of numbering.) Contemporary Dutch tree-calf backed marbled boards with brown cloth corners, the flat spines divided into six compartments by horizontal decorative roll flanked by single fillets, lettered in the second, numbered in the fourth, volumes I-IV with repeat overall decoration of linked wavy rolls forming linked lozenge frames with small single stars placed at the centre of each, volume V (the Supplement) approximately tooled to match (some wear to extremities, volumes I and IV neatly rebacked with original spines laid down, but volume IV with some loss to section of original lower spine).
A FINE UNSOPHISTICATED COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK ON THE EXOTIC LEPIDOPTERA OF ASIA, AFRICA AND AMERICA, ILLUSTRATING OVER 1650 DIFFERENT SPECIES. The first four volumes were issued in 34 parts between 1775 and 1782. Cramer died shortly before the issue of the 8th part and the work was taken over by Stoll. They relied on a large number of collectors in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Haarlem to supply the specimens and each plate generally included both the upper and lower views of the more interesting specimens. Landwehr calls for a second engraved additional title at the front of volume II: this is not present in either this copy or that held by the Natural History Museum, London, but was present in two of the three copies listed as having sold at auction. He does not record that there are at least two apparently preliminary states of the subscribers' list. The supplement deviated slightly from the working method of the earlier volumes in that it includes 22 plates that concentrate largely on the caterpillar and pupal stages of various specimens. BM(NH) I, p.398; Landwehr Dutch Books with Coloured Plates 53; Nissen ZBI 985. (5)
Provenance
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. Y-54).
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