Wilhelm Friederichs Freiherrn von Gleichen, genannt Rußworm, Herrn auf Greiffenstein und Bonnland, Großkreuz des Brandenburgischen rothen Adlerordens und Hochfürstlich Brandenburgisch-Culmbachischen Geheimen Raths, Geschichte der gemeinen Stubenfliege: nebst vier mit Farben erleuchteten Kupfertafeln
A 1790 German natural history treatise on the common housefly, written by Wilhelm Friedrich von Gleichen-Russwurm and published in Nuremberg for naturalists and collectors, with four hand-coloured copper plates. The plates show magnified fly anatomy, including wings, head, mouthparts, legs and pupae, each labelled with numbered figures and letters. A designer could draw on their precise, diagrammatic layout of numbered detail views on a cream ground, with fine line engraving and soft watercolour tints.
