Stuttgart, Kernen Verlag, 1954. In two volumes (text and plates) 4to (31.4 x 24.8 cm). viii, 766, (viii) pp.; 53 chromolithographed plates. Publisher's uniform half calf; spines rich gilt with butterfly vignettes and gilt morocco labels.

Single volume (Supplement IV) of one of the largest and most beautifully illustrated works on butterflies and moths. This being a very large and much needed supplement to one of the earliest (and partly outdated) parts on Eurasian moths. The fine plates were made using the process of 10-14 colour lithography, and its excellent quality has remained unsurpassed. The editor, Friedrich Joseph Adalbert Seitz (1860-1938), planned to finish the whole work in 1912. This proved to be quite unrealistic as publication stopped in 1954, and several volumes remained unfinished. The most important collections of butterflies were consulted including those of L. W. Rothschild of Tring, the British Museum, the Paris Natural History Museum, the Senckenberg Museum at Frankfurt, as well as collections in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Australia, South- and North America, etc. Supplement IV of the German edition is complete unlike in the English edition, which was never finished. An excellent, very clean set in the original binding, which is very rare. Cat. BM(NH), p. 1895; Nissen ZBI, 3799N.