Coleoptera Hesperidum, being an Enumeration of the Coleopterous Insects of the Cape Verde Archipelago

Published by John van Voorst, London, 1867

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xxxix, [1]-blank, 285, [1]-blank, [2]-ads, 1 map. . HB. 8vo, sympathetically rebound in brown cloth, blind-stamped dec. border to boards, gilt rules and leather title piece to spine. Cancelled ink stamp of Linnean Society to verso of title page, otherwise clean. Vg. First edition. Rare.Thomas Vernon Wollaston (1822-1878) was a conchologist and entomologist. He published over 40 scientific papers and is best known for his studies of Coleoptera inhabiting the Macaronesian and Atlantic Island archipelagos. He spent a number of winters in Madeira (1847-1848 and 1855) and made several trips to the Canary Islands (1857-1859) to study the natural history, often with Richard Thomas Lowe and John Edward Gray. In 1866 he visited the Cape Verde Islands with Lowe and Gray. Wollaston was a frequent correspondent with the geologist Charles Lyell, and although he could not support Darwin's theory of evolution, due to his religious beliefs, the two men remained friends.Derkson & Scheiding, Index Litteraturae Entomologicae II, Bd IV: 453.…

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Title
Coleoptera Hesperidum, being an Enumeration of the Coleopterous Insects of the Cape Verde Archipelago
Author
Wollaston, T. Vernon
Publisher
John van Voorst, London
Publication year
1867
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
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Pemberley Books - Established 1989. Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology. We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London, close to M25, Iver Rail Station and Heathrow Airport) We list only books which are immediately available from stock on ABE, but can supply many other books to order.…

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