Original red cloth with decorative blind stamp tooling to boards. Gilt motif to front. Gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. Spine reads ' Naturalist's Library Insects Vol. III." Frontispiece engraving of Madame Maria Sibilla Merian with tissue guard. 268 pages. 30 hand-coloured plates with tissue guards. Boards have some discolouration, minor to front, more severe to back. Rubbing to head and tail of spine. Text and plates in very good condition.