Esaki, T. (a.o.)
Iconographia insectorum Japonicorum. Editio secunda, reformata. (AND) Index.
Tokyo, Hokuryukan, 1950. Two parts in two. Thick 8vo (20.9 x 14.0 x 7.5 cm). 1,738 pp., 15 full colour plates, two tables, numerous text figures. Publisher's half calf over linen boards. Title in silver on spine (the main work); 8vo. 203, 14 pp. of text and two with figures. Publisher's blind-stamped limp linen with gilt title on front cover and spine (the index volume). = Important guide to the insects of Japan in Japanese with Latin nomenclature and each species illustrated. With the very rare index included. Fifty entomologists prepared the descriptions of the different groups and species. Published in a numbered edition, of which this is # 2996. Inner hinges reinforced. A very good copy complemented by the very rare index, published separately, also in Latin and Japanese, and including a chapter with additions and corrections (in Japanese). The index has no date in arabic numerals. A very good, clean set.
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