Lot n° 37
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SCUDDER, Samuel Hubbard. - Lot 37
SCUDDER, Samuel Hubbard.
The Fossil Insects of North America, with notes on some European Species... in two volumes.
Vol. I: The Pretertiary Insects.
Vol. II: The Tertiary Insects.
New York, MacMillan and company, 1890.
2 volumes strong in-4; ivory half vellum, false spine. (Publisher's binder).
First edition of this important work decorated with 63 plates out of text showing several hundred figures.
Precious copy from the library of the Swiss entomologist and mineralogist Henri de Saussure (1829-1905) with his stamp and ex-libris as well as a manuscript autograph from the author: "Dr. Henri de Saussure. With best regards of the author. Samuel Scudder."
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