Orthoptera - Mantodea
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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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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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McCoy, F.
Natural history of Victoria. Prodromus of the zoology of Victoria; figures and descriptions of the living species of all classes of the Victorian indigenous animals. Decade XX. [Complete Decade].
Melbourne, Government Printers, 1890. 4to (27.0 x 18.1 cm). Two title pages; [ii], 47 [numbered 329-375], (xxxiv [indexes]) pp.; ten chromolithographed plates. Original printed wrappers.
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Müller, P. L. S.
Des Ritters Carl von Linne Königl. Schwedischen Leibarzes & c. vollständiges Natursystem der Insecten nach den zwölften lateinischen Ausgabe und nach Anleitung des holländischen houttuynischen Werks mit einer ausführligen Erklärung ausgefertiget. Erster Band. Nebst zwey und zwanzig Kupfertafeln.
Nürnberg, Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, 1774. Thick 8vo (20.1 x 12.3 cm). Two title pages with woodcut vignettes (to the series part, and to the work as such), xxiv, 758 pp.; 22 large, folded, engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over plain boards. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments rich gilt with floral patterns and reddish-brown morocco label with gilt title. All edges red.
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