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Sale 428: Americana - Travel - Natural History - Cartography (#428) 05/13/2010 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #86 Descriptiones Quorumdam Capensium Insectorum

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Title:

Descriptiones Quorumdam Capensium Insectorum

Author:

Wulfen, Franz Xaver von

Place Published:

Erlangae

Publisher:

Wolfgangi Waltheri

Date Published:

1786

Description:

xl pp. 2 hand-colored engraved plates. (4to) 25.4x20 cm. (9¾x8") later sheep-backed boards. First Edition.

Early work on the entomology of the Cape of Good Hope. The plates are largely of beetles but also include the scorpion and a butterfly.

Condition:

Head of spine chipped, some light wear to extremities; near fine.

Item#:

210140

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Descriptiones Quorumdam Capensium Insectorum
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