Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des insectes

Title Variants

Alternative: Memoires pour l'histoire des insectes

By

De Geer, Charles, friherre, 1720-1778

Bergquist, Carl, 1711-1781 , engraver.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Stockholm, L.L. Grefing, 1752-1778

Notes

Description from Nissen, supplemented by Brunet and NUC pre-1956.

"Le premier volume surtout est fort rare, parce que l'auteur, mécontent de son peu de succès, détruisit ... une partie de l'édit."--Brunet.

Tomes 2-7 have imprint: A Stockholm : De l'imprimerie de Pierre Hesselberg.

Tome 2 was issued in 2 pts.

Plate 1 in t. 7 signed: Gravè par C. Bergquist.

The leaves of plates are in various foliations; numbered plate totals for the seven tomes in order are: 37, 43, 44, 19, 16, 30, and 49, for a grand total of 238 (this total does not include the several printed tables on folded plates).

Head- and tail-pieces; initials; side-notes.

Some errors in paging.

Brunet, | t. 2, col. 1517-1518

BM (nat. hist.), | v. 2, p. 648

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, | 1500

Subjects

Arthropoda , Crustacea , Insects

Call Number

QL462 .D4 1752

Classification

595.7

Language

French

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.14802
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/83461803
OCLC: 3128985