Fauna of British India: Diptera Brachycera Vol. I [and] Diptera Vol. III: Pipunculidae, Syrphidae, Conopidae, Oestridae

Description:

Rare original editions. The Brachycera - Brunetti's work was split between these two volumes.

Condition

2 vols, 8vo, orig. cloth. Vol. I rebacked and recased with new endpapers, preserving the original backstrip. A good set. Provenance: From the library of British dipterist, John Bowden (1924-2012), an expert on the world fauna of bee-flies (Bombyliidae), with his signature to endpapers, and with his pencil annotations to text.