Histoire Naturelle Insectes Vol Orthoptères by Castelnau (3 results)

The author of this vol. is BLANCHARD 671 p - 72 pl - Hf leather rubbed, corners used, good general state, only very slightly spoted, plates with slight traces of waterstainings, a few pencil annotations. The plates of the first ed. of this book are never coloured.

Paris, P.Duménil, 1840. 3 vols. CXXV,324, 563, 672 pp. 155 [= 157] single-page steel engravings. Raised gilt h.calf. Scarce work on a.o. the beetles, butterflies and mosquitoes. - Complete set. - Cf. Hagen (1862), p. 55, Blanchard 11.

4 volumes (complete). cxxv, 324, [1], 563, [1], 672, 600, [1] p., 43, 38, 72, 46 pls, contemporary dark violet (almost black) half calf (spine richly gilt), marbled boards (rubbed), blueish-green and brown marbled end-papers, edges light blue. With scattered foxing. very small stamp on title-page volume 1, 2 plates cut short (with loss of tip of wing of butterfly), one blank margin of one plate repaired.Emphasis in this series was on Coleoptera which was treated much more exhaustively than the other groups by le Comte de Castelnau. This is a good, complete set in an attractive period binding.