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[Colour plate. Butterflies] Cramer, Pieter

De utlandische kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America by een verzameld en beschreeven door den heer Pieter Cramer (..)

Te Amsteldam S. J. Baalde MDCCLXXIX (1779). 29 x 23 cm.

Fine condition

Plate CCLXXIV from Pieter Cramers work on butterflies. Outstanding coloring. A work concieved in the height of the enlightment era which is a high point of hand colored books on the natural life. Great effort was put into making the coloring as real as possible. An important work on butterflies.

Item No: 477