Augsburg, J. A. Schlosser, 1834. Three parts in five. Small 8vo (16.5 x 10.5 cm). Three title pages, 1044 pp. [I: xlviii, 376; II: 416; III: 204]; 150 [I: 46; II: 52; III: 52] engraved plates in fine, original hand-colouring; and a larger, double-folded, deliberately not coloured Table d'Instruction(unnumbered, present twice). Contemporary near-uniform marbled paper boards. Spines with gilt lines and gilt title on leather label, black on text volumes, blue on plate volumes.

Rare last contemporary edition of the complete entomology of a series of natural history works titled "Natural History stories", renowned for its plates, as much as for its texts, if not more so. Written by the German naturalist Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811). This is the complete, final edition. A French edition was published too. This "Neue Ausgabe" (new edition) is much rarer than the previous editions. The "instruction map" is bound in the rear of Volume I and again in Vol. III. Provenance: the name Con[rad] Schefold, written in an old hand on the front free endpaper recto of the text volume; pictorial bookplate of the Swiss zoologist Christian Sigrist mounted on the front pastedowns. Boards with some light age-wear. One plate (Vol. I, XLVI) bound upside down. Scattered, mostly minimal spotting, here and there; the title pages more affected, otherwise, surprisingly clean, except for an occasional small smudge or spot; the plates nearly all clean. The colouring is strong and very bright. Hagen 2, p. 288; Horn-Schenkling, 24190 (first edition only); Nissen ZBI 4408.