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LATREILLE, Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, An V
LATREILLE, Pierre André.
Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel.
Brive, Imprimerie de F. Bourdeaux, An 5 [1796].
8vo (203x125 mm), xiii-(1)-201-(5) pages and 1 folding table. binding : Modern quarter calf, gilt flat spine. antiq style binding.
First edition.
Major work by Latreille in which he puts in order the classification of insects according to simple physical characteristics. Latreille's first work before his appointment to the Natural History Museum. He had his work printed in Brives, his hometown.
references: DSB [VIII, 48 : "Latreille's goal in his first major work, his Précis of 1796, was to arrange the genera of insects in their "natural order" by taking numerous characters into consideration. His system was based essentially upon a combination of the characters that Linnaeus and Fabricius had employed.."] Bibliotheca Entomologica [I, 432].
Price : 2000 €
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