Author: Bonvouloir, H. De
Title: Monographie de la famille des eucnémides.
Description: Paris, Société d'Entomologie de France, 1870 [1871]. Thick 8vo (21.0 x 13.2 cm). 907 pp., 42 fine, engraved plates. Contemporary quarter morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. = An enormous standard work on the false click beetles, Eucnemidae, by Vicomte (Viscount) Victor Henry Achard de Bonvouloir (1839-1914). Very well illustrated with fine engravings and with the inclusion of numerous new species. It was published as a supplement to the Annales de Société Entomologique de France. Provenance: with on the front pastedown the small libraty label of the French entomologist and palaeontologist Charles [Jules Edmée] Brongniart (1859-1899), and his name written on the front free endpaper, half title, and title page. Short cut in spine foot. A very good copy with all the plates clean, and in a nice contemporary binding. Horn-Schenkling II(1) p. 324.

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