Naturgeschichte der Insekten, Spinnenthiere, Krustenthiere, Würmer, Weichthiere, Strahlthiere, Polypen, Aufgußthierchen : Ein Anschauungs-Unterricht für Schule und Haus; Mit 447 colorirte Abbildungen auf 34 Doppelfolio-Tafeln und 43 Holzschnitten
A colour-plated German natural history of insects and other invertebrates, written by Christian Friedrich August Kolb and published in Stuttgart in 1890 as a visual teaching aid for schools and homes. Its pages are hand-coloured plates of numbered specimens: caterpillars, moths, butterflies, beetles, grasshoppers and their host plants, each labelled in German and Latin beneath. A designer could take the botanical-scientific layout, the dense grouping of insects on leafy foliage, and the muted, stippled tonal palette.
