Catalogue of the Coleopterous Insects of the Canaries in the Collection of the British Museum

Description:

Scarce. Thomas Vernon Wollaston (1822-1878) was a conchologist and entomologist. Due to ill health he spent a number of winters in Madeira and other north Atlantic Islands. Wollaston published over 40 scientific papers and is best known for his studies of Coleoptera inhabiting the Macaronesian Islands.

Derkson & Scheiding, Index Litteraturae Entomologicae II, Bd IV: 453.

Condition

8vo, orig. cloth. Two leaves of index bound out of sequence. Recent owner's small ex libris label to pastedown. A well-preserved copy.