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CHARPENTIER, Toussaint de (1779-1847). Orthoptera descripta et depicta a T. de Charpentier. Cum tabulis LX coloratis. Leipzig: Leop. Voss, 1841-1845.
10 parts in one volume, 4° (310 x 240mm). 60 hand-coloured lithographic plates. (Title and some text browned, occasional spotting to plates.) Old boards, section of upper cover from an original part mounted on upper cover (rebacked). Provenance: E M B (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE WORK ON GRASSHOPPERS, CRICKETS, STICK INSECTS AND PRAYING MANTIS. Toussaint de Charpentier was 'Berghauptman' in Dortmund und Brieg and author of a number of works on mining, geology and entomology. The author had planned a larger work, but only finished the first 10 parts; the artwork for the remaining 40 plates had been completed and is now in the Zoological Museum at Konigsberg. BM(NH) I,p.338; Hagen Bibl. Entom. p.122; Hern-Schenkling Index Litt. Entom. 3368; Nissen ZBI 875; Sherborn p.XXXVII.
10 parts in one volume, 4° (310 x 240mm). 60 hand-coloured lithographic plates. (Title and some text browned, occasional spotting to plates.) Old boards, section of upper cover from an original part mounted on upper cover (rebacked). Provenance: E M B (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE WORK ON GRASSHOPPERS, CRICKETS, STICK INSECTS AND PRAYING MANTIS. Toussaint de Charpentier was 'Berghauptman' in Dortmund und Brieg and author of a number of works on mining, geology and entomology. The author had planned a larger work, but only finished the first 10 parts; the artwork for the remaining 40 plates had been completed and is now in the Zoological Museum at Konigsberg. BM(NH) I,p.338; Hagen Bibl. Entom. p.122; Hern-Schenkling Index Litt. Entom. 3368; Nissen ZBI 875; Sherborn p.XXXVII.
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