The Property of MR. AND MRS. BERNARD AND ELLA MAZEL
STOLL, CASPAR. Natuurlijke... Afbeeldingen en Beschrijvingen der Spoken, Wandelende Bladen,... Représentation exactement colorée d'après nature des Spectres ou Phasmes, des Mantes, des Sauterelles, des Grillons, des Criquets et des Blattes qui se trouvent dans les quatre parties du monde. Amsterdam: chez J. C. Sepp et fils [1787-] 1813. 2 vols. in one, 4to, 285 x 237 mm. (11 1/8 x 9 3/8 in.), nineteenth-century half brown morocco, smooth spine gilt, marbled edges, rubbed, one plate number and 3 insect's legs cropped, paper very slightly darkened throughout, occasional slight soiling to outer edges. FIRST EDITION, each volume with a letterpress general title (same text but different settings), hand-colored engraved volume title, and letterpress section title, text in Dutch and French, 70 finely hand-colored engraved plates of insects. Landwehr, Studies in Dutch Books with Colored Plates (The Hague 1976) 191; Nissen ZBI 4002.

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STOLL, CASPAR. Natuurlijke... Afbeeldingen en Beschrijvingen der Spoken, Wandelende Bladen,... Représentation exactement colorée d'après nature des Spectres ou Phasmes, des Mantes, des Sauterelles, des Grillons, des Criquets et des Blattes qui se trouvent dans les quatre parties du monde. Amsterdam: chez J. C. Sepp et fils [1787-] 1813. 2 vols. in one, 4to, 285 x 237 mm. (11 1/8 x 9 3/8 in.), nineteenth-century half brown morocco, smooth spine gilt, marbled edges, rubbed, one plate number and 3 insect's legs cropped, paper very slightly darkened throughout, occasional slight soiling to outer edges. FIRST EDITION, each volume with a letterpress general title (same text but different settings), hand-colored engraved volume title, and letterpress section title, text in Dutch and French, 70 finely hand-colored engraved plates of insects. Landwehr, Studies in Dutch Books with Colored Plates (The Hague 1976) 191; Nissen ZBI 4002.

The third of Stoll's entomological works. Stoll had left the work unfinished in 1787; the second volume was produced by Martin Houttuyn who issued the completed work with a general title in 1813.