Pieter Cramer

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Pieter Cramer is commercial and a Entomologiste Dutch, born the May 21st 1721 with Amsterdam and dead the September 28th 1776 in this same city.

This Spanish wool merchant, impassions himself for the Insecte S and constitutes an important collection in particular butterfly S collected by the Dutch tradesmen or colonists with the Surinam. Cramer wishes to be able catalogs its collection, also engages it the painter Gerrit Wartenaar Lambertz to draw its specimens. Cramer also requires of Lambertz to illustrate the butterflies held by other collectors in the Netherlands.

Caspar Stoll (? - 1795) finding the quality of its illustrations so good, which he encourages Cramer to publish a series of drawings. Begin then the publication of Die uitlandische Kapellen voorkomende in drie Waereld-Deelen Asia, Africa in America. Exotic butterflies of the three parts of the world Asia, Africa and America in 1775. Thirty-four booklets, gathered in four volumes, appear until in 1779. Cramer dies before the publication is not completed, this one is led in the long term by Stoll which also makes appear a supplement in 1782.

De Uitlandsche Kapellen is a big step in the history of the Entomologie. Magnificiently illustrated by the engravings coloured with the hand, it is the first book on the exotic butterflies ordered according to the new system developed by Carl von Linné (1707-1778). More than 1.650 species are described, often for the first time.

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