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Octavo, boards illustrated with a repeated pattern of butterflies, 28 colour plates plus 47 pages of text (in German). N.d., c. 1930s? Edges of the spine starting to fray. Scattered light marks, Good condition, Jacob Hübner (1761 - 1826) was a German entomologist and the author of "Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge" a founding work of entomology. "Das kleine Schmetterlingsbuch" is a concise overview of butterflies, with beautiful colour plates. The format is very similar to the British series of King Penguin books, which was in fact modeled on the German Insel Bucherei series from Insel Verlag, which had been published since 1912.