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a set of four old books sitting on top of each othera close up of an old book with writing on itan old book with a picture of a bug on the coveran illustration of a group of beetles on a sheet of paper
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143 - JACQUELIN DU VAL (Camille) & Léon FAIRMAIRE.
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JACQUELIN DU VAL (Camille) & Léon FAIRMAIRE. Entomological Manual. Genera of the Coleoptera of Europe… Paris, A. Deyrolle, 1857–1868. 8 tomes in 4 volumes, in-8, 17 x 26.5 cm, 4 folios, CCLXXVI + 140 pp. & 2 folios, 286 pp., 1 folio, 84 pp., 97–122 pp., 1 folio & 2 folios, 464 pp. & 2 ff., 296 pp., 125–200, 18 ff., 237–284 pp. & 2 ff., XV + 43 pl. & 2 ff., 67 pl. & 2 ff., 100 plates & 2 folios, 78 plates, 20th-century binding in fawn-coloured, grained half-basane, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fillets. First edition, rare, published in 144 instalments. Illustrated with 303 fine plates, depicting nearly 1,600 beetles engraved after Jules Migneaux and coloured and gummed by his wife. Lacking the chapter on pp. 201–236 of the catalogue. Pages 85–96 of the catalogue appear to be missing. A very fine copy, formerly in the natural history libraries of Tantet-Dufour (ex-libris) and subsequently of Gilbert Dufaux (dry-stamped seals on the title pages and on page 39). Signature on the title pages. – Expert: Cédric and Ithier de FOUGEROLLE
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