Essai sur les Myodaires
- Publisher : l'Académie Royale des Sciences
- Published In : Paris
Description:
Rare. Mémoires présentés par divers savants a l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France 2. Loosely inserted is an offprint by the same author, 'Description de plusieurs espèces de Myodaires dont les larves sont mineuses des feuilles de végétaux' Revue et Magasin de Zoologie 1851, pp. 229-236 (bound in cloth-backed marbled boards).
André Jean Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy (1799-1857) was a French physician and entomologist specialising in the study of Diptera.
Condition
4to, cont. qtr. leather, leather title pieces, marbled boards and endpapers. Some rubbing/minor wear to joints and corners; blank lower margin of final page cropped. Occasional light spotting. Vg. From the library of British dipterist, Adrian Pont, with his name in pencil to endpaper.
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