CRAMER (Pieter). Exotic butterflies from the three parts of - Lot 94

CRAMER (Pieter). Exotic butterflies from the three parts of the world, Asia, Africa and America. Amsterdam, S. J. Baalde; Utrecht, Barthélémy Wild, 1779-1782. 4 volumes in-4, original edition illustrated with a title-frontispiece engraved by C.J. De Huyser, an allegorical frontispiece by Th. Koning after De Buys and 400 color plates after originals by G.W. Lambertz, intaglio engraved and brush watercolored by Pieter Cramer. Bound in period green half-maroquin, smooth spine decorated. First edition of this masterpiece of entomological illustration, one of the most beautiful books on butterflies and the first to order exotic Lepidoptera according to Linnaeus' system. (some rubbing and dull corners, small tears).