Entomology List 1
Entomology List 1
77 items found
Freyer, C. F.
Die schädlichsten Schmetterlinge Deutschlands, für Forstmänner, Lehrer, Oekonomen, Gartenbesitzer und Volks-Schulen.
Augsburg, privately published, 1839. 8vo (20.0 x 12.0 cm). xii, 89 pp.; 12 finely engraved plates. Contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards. Label with script title in an old hand on the spine.
Read moreCharpentier, T. de
Libellulinae Europaeae, descriptae ac depictae a Toussaint de Charpentier. Cum tabulis XLVIII coloratis.
Leipzig, Leopold Voss, 1840. Large 4to (30.1 x 23.0 cm). Title page, [i], 180, [i] pp.; 94 engraved plates (double suite) of which 46 finely hand-coloured (as intended). Beautiful contemporary-style gilt-bordered half calf over marbled boards. Spine with raised, gilt-rolled bands; compartments with gilt ornamental bands, vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
Read moreDelarue, [J.]
Musée des Lépidoptères. Collection de papillons de toutes les parties du monde.
Paris, Arnauld de Vresse, [ca. 1840]. Folio (42.0 x 30.1 cm). Gilt-lettered title page; 12 chromolithographed plates with captions, finished by hand, some heightened with silver and gum arabic. Original green cloth with large gilt-embossed decoration and title to front panel and blind-tooled borders.
Read moreSchiödte, 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.
Read moreFieber, F. X.
Entomologische Monographien von Franz Xav. Fieber. Sieben Abhandlungen mit zehn Tafeln in Steinstich.
Prag [Prague], Gottlieb Haase Söhne, 1843 [1844]. Seven works in one. 4to (26.1 x 20.6 cm). Title page, 138 pp. (numbered [279]-416); ten engraved plates. Contemporary marbled boards with green paper spine cover with script title. Speckled edges.
Read moreFieber, F. X.
Genera Hydrocoridum secundum ordinem naturalem in familias disposita. Cum tabulis quator. [AND] Species generis Corisa monographice dispositae cum tabulis duabus. [AND] Rhynchotographieen. Drei monograpische [sic] Abhandlungen. [AND] a handwritten letter to a colleague.
Prag [Prague], Gottlieb Haase Söhne, 1851. Three works in one. 4to (26.1 x 20.6 cm). 143 pp. [31; 48; 64], including three title pages; six engraved plates [4; 2; 0]. Contemporary marbled boards with green paper spine cover with script title. Speckled edges.
Read moreFischer de Waldheim, [J.] G. and E. [von] Eversmann
Entomographie de la Russie. Tome V. Lepidoptères de la Russie. I. Nymphalides.
Moscow, Société Imperiale des Naturalistes, 1851. 4to (30.5 x 24.2 cm). Half title, title page, dedication page; ii, 151 pp.; 16 finely engraved plates, all hand-coloured and occasionally heightened with Gum Arabic. Original printed wrappers.
Read moreHumphreys, H. N.
The butterfly vivarium, or, insect home: being an account of a new method of observing the curious metamorphoses of some of the most beautiful of our native insects. Comprising also a popular description of the habits and instincts of many of the insects of the various classes referred to; with suggestions for the successful study of entomology by means of an insect vivarium.
London, William Lay, 1858. 8vo (18.2 x 13.8 cm). xii, 288, [iv] pp.; eight originally hand-coloured plates, the first (unnumbered) acting as frontispiece. Original burgundy blind-stamped cloth with large gilt vignette on the front board, and gilt ornaments and title on the spine. Red endpapers. All edges gilt.
Read moreKayser, J. C.
Deutschlands Schmetterlinge mit Berücksichtigung sämmtlicher Europäischer Arten.
Leipzig, Ambr. Abel, [1852]-1859. Two parts (text, atlas) in two. 8vo (23.9 x 16.5 cm). Half title, title, 617 pp. (viii, 608; [i]); 153 engraved plates of which 152 originally hand-coloured, and one plain (and without a number), as intended. Uniform blind, pebbled half cloth over marbled boards.
Read moreSchiødte, 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.
Read moreMillière, P.
Catalogue raisonné des lépidoptères des Alpes-Maritimes. Seconde Partie - Troisième et Dernière partie.
Cannes, Société des Sciences Naturelles, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Cannes et de l'Arrondissement de Grasse [for the author], 1873-1875. Two parts in one. 8vo (24.6 x 16.2 cm). Half title, two title pages, pp. 141-247, 251-455; two hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary quarter morocco over blind-stamped boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt.
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