Papillons d'Europe, peints d'après nature
Contributors: Hochecker, Maria Eleonora, 1761-1834, illustrator; Juillet, Jacques, 1739- engraver; Swebach de Fontaine, Jacques François Joseph, 1769-1823, engraver; Delaguette, Pierre-Méri, -1788, printer, bookseller; Basan, François, 1723-1797, bookseller; Delaguette, Marie-Catherine, 1752-1814, printer, bookseller
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: Chez P.M. Delaguette, imprimeur-libraire; [Chez] Basan & Poignant, marchands d'estampes
Published: 1779
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Butterflies; Early works to 1800; Lepidoptera; Moths; Pictorial works; Butterflies in art; Moths in art
Notes: Dedication to M. Gigot d'Orcy in v. 1 signed: J.J. Ernst.

Volumes 1-[2] (paged continuously); v. [2] and [3] without special title page.

357 leaves of plates; ca. 12 plates issued with each part. Four unnumbered leaves of plates inserted respectively at beginning of pt. 1 (engraved title page and dedication), pt. 8 (engraved title page) and pt. 11 (engraved title page); remainder numbered in plate I-CCCXLII; I-III; I-VIII (III suppl.).

Illustrations: 358 prints (incl. 3 added title pages and dedication leaf) : etching, hand col. ; full-page. Engraved by J. Juillet, F.L. Swebach de Fontaine and others, after Ernst, M.E. Hochecker and others. Dedication, engraved title page in pt. 11 and 3 leaves of plates depicting collecting equipment (in pt. 3) are uncolored.

Volumes 1-[2] called also Premiere partie; with engraved title page, which reads: Insectes d'Europe, peints d'apres nature ... Premiere partie, les chenilles, crisalides et papillons de jour ...

Volumes [3]-8 called also Seconde partie; with 2 engraved title pages. The first reads: Insectes d'Europe, peints d'apres nature, gravés et coloriés. Seconde partie, les chenilles, crisalides et papillons sphinx, leurs descriptions. Se vend à Paris, aux adresses des Papillons de jour, et chez Bellu et compagnie ... The second reads: Insectes d'Europe, peints d'apres nature. Seconde partie, les chenilles, crisalides et papillons-phalenes, avec leurs descriptions. Se vend à Paris, chez Delaguette, imprimeur libraire ... [et] Bassan et Poignant md. d'estampes ...

Imprint varies. Volumes 6-8: A Paris : Chez la veuve Delaguette, imprimeur-libraire ...

Pt. 28 dated at foot of p. [89]: 1793.

Volumes 1-[2]: [2], xxxiv, 343, [1] pages; volume [3]: x, 132 pages; volume 4: [6], 215, [1] pages; volume 5: [4], 152, [2] pages; volume 6: [4], 176, [2] pages; volume 7: [4], 173, [3] pages; volume 8: [2], 157, [3] pages.

Subscription list bound in v. 2 of text.

Ornamental title vignettes, head- and tail-pieces.

For detailed descriptions see W. Horn and S. Schenkling, Index lit. entomol.; and H.A. Hagen, Bibl. entomol. See also R. Homberg, "Some Unknown Plates in Ernst and Engramelle's 'Papillons d'Europe peints d'apres nature, ' 1779-1793," Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, v. 3, pt. I, p. 28-33, 1953, for description of 8 plates in a portfolio numbered I-V and VII-IX which comprise the plates for a supplement to the Class première des Phalènes, thought to have been unfinished.

Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.