RÖSEL VON ROSENHOF, AUGUST JOHANN. 1705-1759.Der monatlich-herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigung. Nuremburg: Johann Joseph Fleischman, 1746-1761. WITH: RÖSEL VON ROSENHOF, AUGUST JOHANN; KATHARINA BARABARA RÖSEL VON ROSENHOF; and CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH CARL KLEEMANN. Der beyträge zur Natur-oder Insecten-Geschichte erster Theil. [Nuremburg: 1776]. Together, 5 volumes. 4to (209 x 174 mm). Hand-colored engraved frontispiece in volume I, hand-colored engraved half-titles in volumes II and III (with additional engraved section half-title after p 432 in volume III), engraved portrait in volume IV; 247 hand-colored engraved plates in volumes I-IV, some with two illustrations per plate, and 44 additional plates in the second work (volume V). Modern quarter tan morocco and marbled boards, tissue guards. Browning, foxing, and minor offsetting throughout; marginal dampstaining to volume V. RÖSEL VON ROSENHOF'S COMPLETE WORKS ON INSECTS, including the much rarer posthumous work, completed by his daughter Katharina and her husband, artist and astronomer Christian Friedrich Carl Kleemann. Born to an aristocratic family in Austria, August Johann Rösel was raised by his uncle, noted animal painter Wilhelm Rösel von Rosenhof, from whom he inherited the "von Rosenhof" title. His observations in this work cover marine invertebrates as well as insects, and his detailed classifications made him a pioneer among European entomologists, influencing Carl Linnaeus, among others. Nissen ZBI 3466 and 2201.
RÖSEL VON ROSENHOF, AUGUST JOHANN. 1705-1759.Der monatlich-herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigung. Nuremburg: Johann Joseph Fleischman, 1746-1761. WITH: RÖSEL VON ROSENHOF, AUGUST JOHANN; KATHARINA BARABARA RÖSEL VON ROSENHOF; and CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH CARL KLEEMANN. Der beyträge zur Natur-oder Insecten-Geschichte erster Theil. [Nuremburg: 1776]. Together, 5 volumes. 4to (209 x 174 mm). Hand-colored engraved frontispiece in volume I, hand-colored engraved half-titles in volumes II and III (with additional engraved section half-title after p 432 in volume III), engraved portrait in volume IV; 247 hand-colored engraved plates in volumes I-IV, some with two illustrations per plate, and 44 additional plates in the second work (volume V). Modern quarter tan morocco and marbled boards, tissue guards. Browning, foxing, and minor offsetting throughout; marginal dampstaining to volume V. RÖSEL VON ROSENHOF'S COMPLETE WORKS ON INSECTS, including the much rarer posthumous work, completed by his daughter Katharina and her husband, artist and astronomer Christian Friedrich Carl Kleemann. Born to an aristocratic family in Austria, August Johann Rösel was raised by his uncle, noted animal painter Wilhelm Rösel von Rosenhof, from whom he inherited the "von Rosenhof" title. His observations in this work cover marine invertebrates as well as insects, and his detailed classifications made him a pioneer among European entomologists, influencing Carl Linnaeus, among others. Nissen ZBI 3466 and 2201.
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