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Insects
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Histoire Naturelle des Lepidoptères ExotiquesBuild and Access the Collection - $2,500 Pierre Hippolyte Lucas (1815?-1899) began his career in science at 13 as an apprentice preparator in the zoological laboratory of the Muséum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He became a respected expert on several orders of invertebrates and wrote up the specimens of several important...Read More |
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Papillons d'EuropeBuild and Access the Collection - $4,250 Ernst & Engramelle's work on the butterflies of Europe was originally issued by subscription in 29 fascicles over 13 years. The Cullman Library holds the complete work: eight volumes of text (bound as three) with 342 meticulously and beautifully hand-colored plates in three separate volumes (...Read More |
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Psyche : Figures of Non-Descript Lepidopterous Insects, or Rare Moths and Butterflies From Different Parts of the WorldBuild and Access the Collection - $1,350 Best known as a botanist and conchologist, Thomas Martyn (1735-1825) also published works on entomology. His Psyche is a famous and famously rare work, once thought to exist in only 10 copies, and while that number has been expanded to about 18, they are all different in the number of plates...Read More |
