Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse
Subtitle: nebst einer systematischen Beschreibung ihrer verschiedenen Arten
By: von Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst ...
Contributors: Haas, Peter, 1754-1804, engraver; Heidenreich, J. D., engraver; Schellenberg, Johann Rudolf, 1740-1806, engraver; Schmidt, Ludwig, fl. 1787-1808, engraver; Guimpel, Friedrich, b. 1774, ill; Hardwicke, Thomas, former owner; McLaughlin, Patsy A., former owner; Lemaitre, Rafael, former owner; Entomological Society of London
Publisher: Bei Gottlieb August Lange
Published: 1790
Place of publication: Berlin; und Stralsund
Language: ger
Subjects: Crabs; Crayfish; Pictorial works
Other titles: Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse; Krabben und Krebse
Notes: Bd. 1, Heft 1 has added t.p. with imprint: Zürich : bey Joh. Caspar Fuessly, 1782.

Bd. 3 issued in 4 pts., 1799-1804.

Plates engraved by Schellenberg, P. Haas, L. Schmidt, and J.D. Heidenreich; plates drawn by Herbst and Guimpel.

Engraved title vignettes (Bde. 1-2), woodcut head- and tail-pieces; side-notes.

Some errors in paging.

An index to the whole work is at the end of Bd. 2.

For more information on the publication of this work, see C.D. Sherborn's article in Index animalium I (1902), p. xxix; also M.J. Rathbun's article in Proc. biol. Soc. Wash. XI (1897), p. 157.

Includes bibliographical references.

BM (Nat. hist.), v. 2, p. 828

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, I, 1896

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SCNHRB has two copies.

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088009154667, 39088009150368, 39088009154469) has hand-colored plates.

SCNHRB c. 1 has a short clipping from M.J. Rathbun's article in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XI (1897) mounted on the front free endpaper of Bd. 1, providing the date of issue, no. of plates, signatures, and page numberings of each Heft from this work.

SCNHRB c. 1 has stamps: Library, Division of Crustacea; Library, U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Sept. 22, 1891. With accession no. (for all 3 v.): 140392.

SCNHRB c. 1 has some ms. annotations in the margins of the text and on the plates.

SCNHRB c. 1 has a brown buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine and marbled edges.

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088016462996, 39088016463036, 39088016463077) Bde. title pages dated 1782, 1796, 1799.

SCNHRB c. 2 lacking the main t.p. to Bd. 1 and all the plates.

SCNHRB c. 2 inscribed in ink on t.p.s: Tho. Hardwicke.

SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on t.p.s: Entomological Society of London.

SCNHRB c. 2 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Dr. Rafael Lemaitre from the Library of Dr. Patsy A. McLaughlin (1932-2011).

SCNHRB c. 2 half bound in sheepskin and marbled paper boards.