Essai sur l'Entomologie Horticole comprenant l'Histoire des Insectes nuisibles a l'Horticulture avec l'indication des moyens propres a les éloigner ou a les détruire et l'histoire des insectes et autres animaux utiles aux cultures
- Publisher : E. Donnaud
- Published In : Paris
- Illustrations : engraved portrait frontis, 125 woodcuts to text
Description:
First edition. Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval (1799-1879) was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician. He was one of the most celebrated lepidopterists of France, and was the co-founder of the Société entomologique de France.
Condition
8vo, cont. half leather (rubbed, some wear to spine/corners), raised bands to spine, marbled boards. Ex-lib: ink stamps to endpapers only. Author's inscription to M. Dupuis. Good copy.
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