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Aachen and Leipzig, [J.] A. Mayer, 1829-1832. 670 pp. (I [1829]: vi, 170; 2 [1830]: iv, 212; 3 [1832]: [ii], 276]); 125 [I-XLII; XLIII-LXXX; LXXXI-CXXV] lithographed plates; a few figures accurately hand-coloured. Uniform later 19th-century green linen boards. = A seldom-seen complete set of this important contribution to the knowledge of European butterflies and moths by the German organist and entomologist Johann Wilhelm Meigen (1764-1845). It is rarer than the author's Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen Zweiflügeligen Insekten, a similar work on flies, mosquitos, etc. With an armorial bookplate of Rudolf Curtius "?S ?S ?" mounted on the front pastedowns, and the name Rich. Blaß, as well as a small stamp of A. Vives Moreno in the top margin of the front free endpapers recto. Slight wear to the boards; rather spotted throughout (as usual), some plates a bit more so, otherwise good, complete. Hagen I, 529; Horn-Schenkling, 14872; Nissen ZBI, 2775.