Author: [Rothschild, M. de], I. Bolivar
Title: Voyage de M. le baron Maurice de Rothschild en ̑thiopie et en Afrique orientale anglaise (1904-1905). R̩sultats scientifiques. Animaux articul̩s. Orthopt̬res.
Description: 1922 Three loose (2 engraved and 1 lithographed) and hand-coloured plates of this very rare work on East African insects and arthropods. Offered here are plates drawn by M. Trottet & A. Millot. Plate size small folio (28 x 36 cm). Two have some slight foxing, the third plate clean (depicting a large specimen of Phasmid - then in the order of Orthoptera but now in its own order Phasmatodea). Maurice Edmond Charles Rothschild (1881-1957) financed and organized (together with Henri Neuville) a collecting expedition in East Africa; travelling from Djibouti, across Eritrea to Ethiopia and Kenya. The specimens were presented to the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. A large number of entomologists, including Charles Rothschild, worked on the specimens and their descriptions were published in the first two volumes of this publication. Only 400 copies were printed. Spoiler alert: A complete set of 100 (extra large) plates of this expedition will be offered in a deluxe paper catalogue, featuring the rarest and never before offered books I have in stock. To be issued early next year (1925)!

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