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Lot 172
Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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Nov 8, 2022
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[ENTOMOLOGY & BEETLES]. A group of 47 works, comprising:
DENNY, Henry. Monographia Pselaphidarum et Scydmaenidarum Britanniae. Norwich et al, 1825. 19th-century cloth-backed boards. -- HOPE, Frederick William. “Characters and Descriptions of Several New Genera and Species of Coleopterous Insects.” In: Transactions of Zoological Society of London. Vol. I, part II, pp. 91-112. N.p., communicated 28 May 1833. Later quarter calf. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED. -- [RECICHENBACH, Heinrich Gottleib Ludwig]. Monographia Pselaphorum. Leipzig, [1816]. 19-century paste-paper covered boards. -- REBAU, Heinrich. Häfer-Büchlein oder Beschreibung der Schönsten, Nützlichsten und Schädlichsten in-und Ausländilchen Käfer. Reutlingen, ca 1850. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Fourth edition. -- [REITTER, Edmund]. A Sammelband of offprints on beetles published in Germany from between 1878 to 1915. 41 works bound in 3 volumes. 38pp. manuscript pages interleaved, with 4pp. manuscript folded leaf laid in to [vol. III]. Each volume bound in early 20th-century quarter red morocco. -- STURM, Jacob. Catalog meiner Insecten-Sammlung. Nürnberg, 1826. Original cloth gilt. Third edition. -- SAMOUELLE, George. The Entomologist’s Useful Compendium. L, 1819. 19th-century half polished calf gilt. -- And one other. Together, 47 works in 10 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, many with engraved plates and hand-coloring, condition generally good. Provenance: one book from the collection of George Robert Waterhouse, English Naturalist (presentation inscription); three volumes from the collection of Frank C. Fletcher, American entomologist (stamps, manuscript additions).
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil
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