3 parts in one volume, 4to (328 x 253 mm). 30 hand-colored engraved plates. Contemporary paper-backed boards, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (some light rubbing). Provenance: Hans W. Taeuber (bookplate); Librairie Jacques Lechevalier (bookseller's ticket).

FIRST EDITION OF COQUEBERT'S SCARCE WORK.  Complete copies of this important entomological study of insects in the Museum of Natural History in Paris are very rare, as the publisher's stock was destroyed by fire. Coquebert was a noted French naturalist and councilor to the royal court at Amiens and Rhiems.  A FINE WIDE-MARGINED COPY. Nissen ZBI 957.