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Set of 7 Antique Prints of a Grasshopper and other Insects
€550 ($620, £465, €550)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- Not stated
- Size
- 9.2 × 6 in (23.4 × 15.3 cm)
- Condition
- Good. General age-related toning. Minor wear and soiling. With original protective sheet attached. Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
- Section
- Insects and butterflies
- Reference
- f_34631962
Seven plates of grasshoppers and other insects from the Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle, edited by Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny and published in 1861. Each is a hand-colored engraving headed "Dict. Univ. d'Hist. Nat." and "Insectes", with the orders Orthoptères, Névroptères and Hémiptères named on the individual sheets.
The plates range widely. One shows a big green katydid with spread wings above two small crickets, another a stick insect with long legs and rose-tinted wings, and a third locusts with patterned hindwings. Others show lacewings and owlflies with spotted wings, brilliant lantern bugs in red, orange and blue, dragonflies with turquoise bodies, and a cockroach beside a green mantis. Many plates include enlarged outline drawings of heads, legs and mouthparts for identification.
D'Orbigny was a French botanist and geologist who identified many of the flowering plant species returned to France from his brother's collecting journeys through South America.
