Handwritten t.p. and table of contents Text and ill. have been excerpted from Panzer's Faunae insectorum Germanicae initia and rebound in a new arrangement by one of the book's previous owners Panzer's plates and their letterpress descriptions are mounted on blank leaves facing each other, with 2 plates or 2 letterpress descriptions combined on each leaf Plates signed by Jakob Sturm Cf. H.A. Hagen, Bib. entomologica, Bd. 2, Seite 27, Nr. 6; BM (Nat. hist.) v. 4, p. 1510 extracted picklist SCNHRB copy 39088009549965 has stamp and autograph of a former owner: W.L. McAtee SCNHRB copy has an autograph, apparently of a former owner, mounted just after the title leaf: Ex libris Du Cluseii[?] SCNHRB copy has stamp on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum; accession no.: 319973 SCNHRB copy has later green half-leather binding with embossed cloth-covered boards and brown endpapers