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‎Coléoptères. Avec une introduction renfermant l'anatomie et la physiologie des animaux articulés. Par M. (Gaspard-Auguste) Brullé. In 2 volumes. ‘Histoire naturelle des insectes ... Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés’, Tome 1 et 2.‎

‎Paris, (Lacour for) Société Bibliophile, (1850-)1851, in-8vo, 2 leaves + LXXVI (= 76 p. Introd. by Brullé) + 325 p. / 2 leaves + 566 p. + in all 81 handcoloured and gummed steel engraved plates, plate 57 with tiny waterstains to upper right corner, some rare unsignif. foxing to text pages (strong foxing to the title leaves), light browning to text leaves (as usual) but plates untouched, hw. note on front endleaves ‘Dr. Y. Faes, don de A. Forel’, brown half leather bindings, gilt title and lining on spines, some rubbing.‎

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‎This is a title edition, a reissue of the 1835-1841 edition with the same plates and text, new title page dated 1851. A remarkable publication, with altogether 81 nicely handcoloured engravings: 24 pl. to Brullé's anatom. and physiolog. Introd., and 57 pl. to Castelnau's work. Some of the handcoloured beetle plates are very well coloured!According to the handwritten note on the endpaper of both volumes this is a copy from the library of the famous Swiss entomologist Dr. Auguste Forel. Nissen ZBI 838; Horn-Schenkling 3265. ‎