Insecta Svecica et exotica
By: H. Gadamer
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1847
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: ger
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Insects
Notes: Spine title.

Holograph.

91 leaves of hand-drawn, hand-coloured entomological illustrations, drawn from mainly specimens collected in and around Trolle-Ljungby and Arup, in Sweden. Leaves 1-33 feature coleoptera; leaves 34-40 orthoptera and hemiptera; leaves 41-91 lepidoptera. All three sections have their own hand-lettered title page, specifying date of execution and location.

Index follows illustrations.

Author's presentation inscription to daughter on front endpaper (dated 1873).

Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.
Table of contents: title: Coleoptera Scanica (1847); title: Orthoptera et Hemiptera Scanica (1847-48); title: Lepidoptera Scanica (1846).