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

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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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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.