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.

An enormous standard work on the false click beetles, Eucnemidae, by Vicomte (Viscount) Victor Henry Achard de Bonvouloir (1839-1914). Very well illustrated with fine engravings and with the inclusion of numerous new species. It was published as a supplement to the Annales de Société Entomologique de France. Provenance: with on the front pastedown the small library label of the French entomologist and palaeontologist Charles [Jules Edmée] Brongniart (1859-1899), and his name written on the front free endpaper, half title, and title page. Small repair to spine foot. A very good copy, with all the plates clean, and in a contemporary binding. Horn-Schenkling II(1) p. 324.