Coleoptera
25 items found
Baehr, M.
Revision of the Pseudomorphinae of the Australian region. 1. The previous genera Sphallomorpha Westwood and Silphomorpha Westwood. Taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae).
München, Zoologische Staatssammlung München, 1992. 8vo (24.0 x 16.9 cm). 440 pp.; full colour frontispiece, 553 text illustrations. Laminated pictorial softcover.
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[Bates, H. W.]
The Zoologist. A popular miscellany of natural history conducted by Edward Newman, F.L.S., Z.S., &c. Volumes 1-11.
London, John van Voorst, 1843-1853. 11 volumes in 11. 8vo. (21.4 x 13.6 cm). 4156, cciv pp.; illustrations in the text. Contemporary uniform black half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt title, volume year, and decorative lines. Speckled edges.
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Bergstraesser, J. A. B. [Bergsträsser]
Nomenclatur und Beschreibung der Insecten in der Graffschaft Hanau-Münzenberg wie auch der Wetterau und der angränzenden Nachbarschaft dies und jenseits des Mains. [Plate 5].
Hanau, privately published, 1778. Single leaf (22.3 x 14.9 cm). Finely engraved and in delicate original hand-colouring.
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Bonvouloir, [V.] H. [A.] De
Monographie de la famille des eucnémides.
Paris, Société d'Entomologie de France, 1870 [1871]. Thick 8vo (21.0 x 13.2 cm). 907 pp.; 42 fine, engraved plates. Contemporary quarter morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Bory de Saint-Vincent, [J. B. G. G. M.] et al. (eds).
Annales générales des sciences physiques. Volumes I-VIII. [All published].
Bruxelles, Weissenbuch, Père, 1819-1821. Eight volumes in eight. 8vo (23.0 x 14.3 cm). Numerous pages and plates, of which several with additional hand-colouring. Original uniform blue wrappers. Handwritten paper labels on the spines.
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Diderot, D. and J. d'Alembert (eds.)
Insects [from the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire des sciences, plates 75-83].
[Paris, Briasson, David, Le Breton, 1768]. Folio (39.2 x 25.1 cm, or wider). Nine plates with large engravings, each with fine, contemporary hand-colouring, gilt border and printed caption.
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Doria, G. and R. Gestro (eds.)
Esplorazione del Giuba e dei suoi affluenti compiuta dal cap. V. Bottego durante gli anni 1892-93 sotto gli auspicii del Società Geografica Italiana. - Resultati zoologici.
Genova, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 1895. 8vo (25.5 x 17.0 cm). xviii, 558 pp.; five lithographed plates; one very large, folded map of the Horn of Africa. Original printed wrappers.
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Houlbert, C. et al.
Faune Entomologique Armoricaine. Publiée par la Station Entomologique de l'Université de Rennes. Tome I-II.
Rennes, Station Entomologique de l'Université de Rennes, 1909-1912. Three parts in three. 8vo (25.0 x 16.5 cm). 624 pp. [viii, 97; 140; 111-311; vi, 172]. 600 text illustrations [146; 149; 150-237; 217]. Near uniform original wrappers.
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Latreille, P. A.
Tableau encyclopédique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature. Insectes.
Paris, Agasse, 1818. Folio (28.5 x 21.4 cm). 165 engraved plates (numbered 1-165). Contemporary full tree calf. Boards with gilt-ruled borders, spine with rich Louis XVI-style gilt-ornamented red and green morocco labels. Marbled endpapers.
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Ogilvie-Grant, W. R. (ed.). a. o.
Reports on the collection made by the British Ornithologists' Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1913.
London, Francis Edwards, 1916. In two volumes. Large 4to (33.2 x 25.6 cm). Text; 41 plates of which 13 in chromolithography; 76 text figures; two fine, coloured, double-sized maps. Original uniform printed wrappers.
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Pasquet, O.
Coléoptères de la Manche.
Cherbourg, Société Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et Mathématiques de Cherbourg, 1929. Large 8vo (24.0 x 15.5 cm). Title page, 332 pp., interleaved; large, folded map of the Cotentin Peninsula (Normandy) region. Dark green pebbled morocco over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands, floral vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers. [AND] Six additional items, of which three supplemental to this work.
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Schiödte, J. S. [Schiødte]
Genera og species af Danmarks Eleutherata at tjene som fauna for denne orden og som indledning til dens anatomie og historie. Förste Bind. Med fem og tyve kobbertavler. [All published].
Kjöbenhavn, H. C. Klein [Paa kongelig bekostning], 1841. Large, thick 8vo (25.1 x 17.0 cm). xii, 613, xxii pp.; 25 engraved plates on 24 leaves. Contemporary polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with blind embossed and gilt bands; gilt title.
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Schiødte, J. C. [Schiödte]
Fortegnelse over de i Danmark levende Coleopter. [List of Coleoptera living in Denmark].
København (Copenhagen), C. A. Reitzel, [1864-1872]. In four volumes. 8vo (22.0 x 14.5 cm). 453 pp.; one tissue-guarded lithographed plate. Uniform polished half calf over pebbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and title. Yellow endpapers, subtly marbled edges.
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Smith, A.
Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa; consisting chiefly of figures and descriptions of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa". Published under the authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. Mammalia. Aves. Reptilia. Pisces. Invertebratae. [Complete].
London, Smith, Elder and Co., [1838]-1849. Five volumes in five. Large 4to (31.6 x 26.6 cm). Reptilia: (ii [index], 28 [appendix] pp., errata leaf; 78 plates (75 plates hand-coloured, plates 30, 42, and 48 plain as intended); Mammalia: vii pp. (including index); 52 plates (numbered I-XVII, XIX-XXXVI, XXXVIII-LIII, VIIIbis); 48 hand-coloured, four (8bis, 15, 21, 25, plain, as intended); plates 18 and 37 not published - see Mammalia index list); Pisces: [i] p. (index); 31 hand-coloured plates; Aves: [ii] pp.; 114 hand-coloured plates; Invertebratae: [ii], 75 pp.; four hand-coloured plates, making a total of 279 plates (272 hand-coloured) most by and after George H. Ford, and all with descriptive text on unnumbered leaves. Uniform publisher's green blind-stamped cloth with floral pattern on the boards and gilt title on the spines. Brown endpapers.
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Sturm, J. [or J. A. Boerner]
Four beetles. [Original watercolour].
Germany, [the artist], [before] 1835. Single leaf (8.9 x 7.1 cm) with four small, detailed drawings of beetles, mounted on a larger sheet (17.5 x 11.7 cm). Preserved in a larger, modern cardboard frame (37.4 x 25.6 cm).
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Wilcox, J. A.
Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa. Pars 78, Fasc. 1-4 (Editio Secunda). Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae. Fasc. 1: Oidini, Galerucini, Metacyclini, Sermylini; Fasc. 2: Luperini: Aulacophorina, Diabroticina; Fasc. 3 Luperina; Fasc. 4: Addenda et index. [Complete].
's-Gravenhage, W. Junk, 1971-1975. Four parts in four. 8vo (34.7 x 16.9 cm). 772 pp. [220; 212; 234; 106]. Original grey printed wrappers (Fasc. 1 and 2); uniform red, pictorial wrappers (Fasc. 3 and 4).
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Wollaston, T. V.
Catalogue of the coleopterous insects of the Canaries in the collection of the British Museum.
London, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1864. Thick 8vo (21.9 x 14.0 x 3.8 cm). xiii, 648, 8 pp. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine. Yellow endpapers.
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Wollaston, T. V.
Coleoptera Atlantidum, being an enumeration of the coleopterous insects of the Madeiras, Salvages, and Canaries.
London, John van Voorst, 1865. Thick 8vo (22.0 x 13.8 x 4.8 cm). xlvii, 526, 140 pp.; one engraved map. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine.
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