ZOOLOGY - Entomology - [Jablonsky Carl Gustav and Herbst, Johann F. W.]. [Natural system of all known domestic and foreign insects. Second section: Butterflies]. 3 volumes of plates. With 328 col. Copper plates. [Berlin, Pauli, 1783-1804]. Landscape 4°. Marbled paper boards of the period with fragmentary spine labels. Spine labels (edges and joints bumped, capitals partly damaged and with small losses). Nissen ZBI 2078 - Horn/Sch. 10130 - Hagen I, 358 - Junk, Rara 10 - First edition of the plates, without the text volumes. - The natural history system, written mainly by Herbst after the death of Jablonsky in 1787, was published until 1806 in two sections (A: Beetles and B: Butterflies) with a total of 21 volumes and a two-part atlas, of which the part on butterflies is complete here. - Slightly browned, occasional fingerprints in the white margins. The plates in splendid colouring. - Provenance: From the estate of the British entomologist Frederick DuCane Godman (1834-1919), with his armorial bookplate on the inside covers.