Archives Entomologiques ou recueil contenant des illustrations d'insectes nouveaux ou rares. Tome Premier [-Deuxieme]

Description:

Very rare. Vol. I covers mainly Coleoptera, particularly Cerambycidae. Vol. II with secondary title: 'Voyage au Gabon. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes et des Arachnides recueillis pendant un voyage fait au Gabon en 1856 et en 1857 par Henry C. Deyrolle…' The section on Arachnids is by H. Lucas.

James Thompson (1828-1897) was an American entomologist specializing in the Coleoptera. He lived most of his life in Paris.

Horn-Schenkling, 22015; Nissen ZBI, 4120.

Condition

2 vols, large-8vo, qtr cloth, rebacked with new cloth spines in the original style, with gilt/blind rules, original marbled boards; marbled edges; book-plates to endpapers. As usual with this work, there is some foxing to the text and marginal spotting to some plates; title page/frontis to Vol. I have some damage due to adhesion of the pigment, with some loss of text to the author's name and slight damage to the plate figure.