HEYNE, Alexander and Otto TASCHENBERG.
Die exotischen Käfer in Wort und Bild.
Esslingen & München, J.F. Schreiber (back of title-page: printed by G. Reusche, Leipzig), [1893-]1908. Large 4to (33.5 x 26.5 cm). With 40 chromolithographed plates (lithographed by Max Brüggemann, Leipzig, and printed by F.A. Brockhaus). Publishers original decorated cloth.
With: (2) HEYNE, Alexander. Systematisches und alphabetisches Verzeichnis der bis 1892 beschriebenen exotischen Cicindelidae.
Leipzig, Ernst Heyne, 1894. Large 8vo (27 x 17.5 cm). Contemporary half cloth. [8], VII, [1 blank], 262, L pp.; 36, [2] ll.
€ 700
First edition of a classic visual description of beetles, originally published in 27 instalments from 1893 to 1908. The work was started by the German entomologist Alexander Heyne (1869-1927) and after 12 instalments he continued with the help of his colleague Otto Taschenberg (1854-1923). The attractive coloured plates depict 1854 beetle species.
Binding rubbed along the extremities, but internally in very good condition. Nissen, ZBI 1932.
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