Schmetterlinge: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of Butterflies hand-sewn humpty Dumpty a near complete pad of

a near complete pad of score sheets

and glazed a deep

which feel almost as if they were dug out of the ground fully formed

" who would use them to gather a crew by rendering unsuspecting victims on shore unconscious

Most exciting are several pages devoted entirely to colored pencil drawings

Schmetterlinge: Marvelous C. 1800 German Watercolor on Laid of Butterflies hand-sewn humpty Dumpty a near complete pad ofThis is not a hand colored engraving, it is an original, beautifully executed ink and watercolor drawingone of four watercolors I purchased from a German seller, which appear all done by the same person, likely c. 1800. Photos do no justice to the real thing. I would guess they were the original drawings after which engravings were then made for a volume on animal life. I find it, and all of them, just extraordinarily beautiful, and their amazing