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Wollaston, T. Vernon - Catalogue of the Coleopterous Insects of the Canaries in the Collection of the British Museum

Title: Catalogue of the Coleopterous Insects of the Canaries in the Collection of the British Museum
Description: British Museum 1864 xiii, [1], 648 + 8 (Ads), . . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Two leaves of index bound out of sequence. Recent owner's small ex libris label to pastedown. A well-preserved copy.. Scarce. Thomas Vernon Wollaston (1822-1878) was a conchologist and entomologist. Due to ill health he spent a number of winters in Madeira and other north Atlantic Islands. Wollaston published over 40 scientific papers and is best known for his studies of Coleoptera inhabiting the Macaronesian Islands.Derkson & Scheiding, Index Litteraturae Entomologicae II, Bd IV: 453..

Keywords: Canary Islands; Atlantic Islands; Europe; Coleoptera

Price: GBP 295.00 = appr. US$ 421.26 Seller: Pemberley Natural History Books
- Book number: A52547

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