Author: Duméril, A. M. C.
Title: Considérations générales sur la classe des insectes. Ouvrage orné de soixante planches en taille-douce reprentant plus de trois cent cinquante genres d'insectes.
Description: Paris, F. G. Levrault, 1823. 8vo (23.5 x 14.5 cm). xii, 272 pp.; 60 engraved plates. Publisher's printed boards. In transparent sleeve. = This copy was presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by William MacClure, one of its founding members, as acknowledged by a printed label on the front paste-down. The naturalist, cartographer and "father of American geology" MacClure (1763-1840) went to New Harmony, Indiana, with other noted naturalists, such as Thomas Say ("father of American entomology and malacology"), David Dale Owen, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, and several others, in pursuit of a new, Utopian life of happiness, enlightenment, and prosperity through education, science, technology, and communal living. Duméril's work is of taxonomic importance as he introduced new taxa. The plates are of a very high quality, being drawn by Prêtre under the direction of Turpin. Spine cover with some chips; the top outer corner of most plates with a circular water-stain, on a few plates just reaching printed images. Text rather foxed. Also with a stamp of the ANSP on the title page. Horn-Schenkling, 5521; Nissen ZBI, 1192.

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