Antique Insect Prints

Antique Insect Prints

View these interesting entomological prints of common and exotic insects. Please contact us if you are looking for special insects.

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Grasshopper (Grillus cristatus)

Copper etching in original hand coloring, ca 1820. Text page with a description in French, Russian and German is included.

22.7 x 18.8 cm ( 8.9 x 7.4 ")

$ 180.00

Order Nr. INSECT9301

INSEKTEN IV

Wood engraving ca 1870 showing wasps, earwigs formica herculanea, coccus cacti and many others.

Print has light age toning and a vertical centerfold.

22 x 27.5 cm ( 8.6 x 10.8 ")

$ 55.00

Order Nr. INSECT9916

No Title - From "The Museum of Animated Nature".

Wood engraving ca 1880. The reverse side is printed with information about the images on the front side (text in English and not complete).

Light age toning and minimal fraying on right margin. Left margin is narrow.

$ 70.00

Order Nr. INSECT9919

Wasp Nest

Wood engraving from an illustrated work ca 1870. Reverse side is printed with an image of the carpenter bee ( spirifer saperda)

10 x 10 cm ( 3.9 x 3.9 ")

$ 40.00

Order Nr. INSECT9917

Upper image: Das Nest der gemeinen Wespe (Vespa Vulgaris)

10 x 10 cm ( 3.9 x 3.9 ")

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Lower image: Das Nest der Pillenwespe (Eumenes)

6 x 8 cm ( 2.3 x 3.1 ")

Wood engravings from an illustrated work ca 1875.
Light age toning. Reverse side is printed.

$ 50.00

Order Nr. INSECT9918

"Spotted Scarabaeus. - Ateuchus varidosus"
(In natural sie, surrounded by Scarabees in diminished form)

Wood engraving ca 1895. Modern hand coloring.
Backside is printed.

8.8 x 12.3 cm ( 3.4 x 4.8 ")

$ 70.00

Order Nr. INSECT9907

Goldfuss Animal Prints

The "Naturalist Atlas" by Georg August Goldfuss(Bayreuth 1782 - 1848 Bonn). This extra large-size collection of lithographs of spectacular modern coloring depicting animals, birds, reptiles, fish, etc. published in Duesseldorf, at Arnz from 1824 -1842, was issued over this long period of time inserial parts of twenty prints each per annum. There are no officially bound copies. And, as always when so much time passes, few copies will have been completed with all 454 prints. Subscribers may have died, lost interest, run out of money or may have had any other reason to discontinue collecting this work. And loose pages, especially when so large, have a tendency to get in the way or create problems of storage. Many have been folded to handy size, rolled up or simply lost. This makes these decorative oversize prints rare and sought. Here is an exerpt of our stock. Please ask us if you are looking for special animals.

Prints have watermark: J. Waterman.

Our prints are in very nice condition. However they show some signs of age, such as general age toning, a few non-disturbing wrinkles, some minor spotting or other little blemishes. A few have small repaired tears in margins. Any major flaw will be individually mentioned.

Size of page: ca 45.5 x 58 cm ( 17.9 x 23 " )

Ord. VII Neuropotera - Netzflügler (Lacewings)

A few scattered light spots. Tiny repaired tears margin edges.

$ 900.00

Order Nr. GOLDFUSS6590

Ord VI Orthoptera Geradflügler (Heuschrecke) -(grasshopper>)

$ 900.00

Order Nr. GOLDFUSS6591

More Goldfuss Animal Prints

Stag-Beetle and Longicorn Beetle

Chromolithograph published by Selmar Hess, 1898, New York.

Image is mounted on backing with wide margins.
Light crease in upper image.

20 x 13 cm ( 7.8 x 5.1 ")

$ 65.00

Order Nr. INSECT9904

Cicadae, Lantern Fly, Etc.

Chromolithograph published by Selmar Hess, 1898, New York.
Image is mounted on backing with wide margins.
Tiny repaired tear on lower margin edge. A very light spot on right margin edge.

20.7 x 12.8 cm ( 8.1 x 5 ")

$ 65.00

Order Nr. INS9905 SOLD

"Hercules Beetle"

Wood engraving ca 1890.
Fine, modern hand coloring.

18.5 x 13.2 cm ( 7.3 x 5.1 ")

$ 130.00

Order Nr. INSECT9908

Insecta Malorum Arantiorum et Limoniarum

1. Bruecken bey St. Peter und Weg nach Altdorf. 2. Hallers Weiher. 3. Glockenhoff.

Copper engraving from Nuremberg Hesperides, 1708-1714 by Johann Volckamer.

Left margin has been reinforced. Repaired tear in left margin. Repair in lower left margin corner. Minimal spotting.

$285.00

Order Nr. HESPERIDES5166

No Title.

Copper etching from "Histoire Naturelle", published 1751 in Paris.
Modern hand coloring. A few very minor spots.

31.5 x 19.7 cm ( 12.4 x 7.7 ")

$210.00

Order Nr. INSECT9915