Complex sentence: Beautifully illustrated with fine hand-coloured engravings of Lepidoptera from Asia, Africa and America, and was the first book on exotic Lepidoptera, to use the then new system developed by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) for naming and classifying animals.
Split into simpler sentences: Beautifully illustrated with fine hand-coloured engravings of Lepidoptera from Asia, Africa and America. It was the first book on exotic Lepidoptera, to use the then new system developed by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) for naming and classifying animals.