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EXTRAORDINARY ENTOMOLOGICAL PERIODICALS
[ENTOMOLOGY] ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE, INTERRUPTED RUN 1859 - 1920, BOUND VOLUMES AND ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Société Entomologique de France. Over 150 hand-colored engraved plates, hundreds more monochrome/tinted plates. Offered as a lot. 24 bound volumes, the rest in parts in original wrappers. Condition good to excellent. A few covers are detached or spines split in the paper issues, and spines of a few of the bound volumes are chipped (and backstrip is detached, 1859 volume). Very few plates are flawed: a few may have partial dampstaining. Overall the color plates are delicate and vivid, in excellent condition. As follows: Series 3, 1859-60, 2 volumes - Series 4, 1861-67, 1869-70, 9 volumes - Series 5, 1872-1879, 8 volumes - Series 6, 1883-1890, 8 volumes; 1891-1895, 1897-1899, 1902-1903, 1906, 1909, 1913-1920 (LX -LXXXIX), 20 volumes (1895 vol LXIV lacks part 3). Complete list available upon request. $3500.00 #80288