Live auction - Lot 333

[Zoology]

OLIVIER, Guillaume-Antoine

Entomologie ou Histoire naturelle des insectes, avec leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie, et leur figure enluminée.

Paris, Baudouin, 1789-1795


Hammer price: € 2.400

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Lot description

4 (of 6) vol., 4to; front. and 262 pl. ((vol. 5 and 6 missing), sheet with light spots on verso vol. 2, some foxing in vol. 4).

Contemp. calf, titled spines with raised bands, gilt edges (lower joint part. split vol. 3, sl. rubbed).

First edition of this major work by the entomologist Olivier. The beautiful front. in the 1st vol. and all the 262 plates, engraved by Lebrecht Reinold and J. Audebert, are finely hand-coloured.
Ref
. Nissen (ZBI) 3012.

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Lot 333

Entomologie ou Histoire naturelle des insectes, avec leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie, et leur figure enluminée.

OLIVIER, Guillaume-Antoine

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