Considérations générales sur la classe des insectes

First edition.
Publisher's cream printed boards slightly soiled, lithographed frame and title at center of front board.
Work illustrated with sixty copperplate engravings drawn by Prêtre depicting more than three hundred and fifty genera of insects.
André-Marie-Constant Duméril (1774-1860) succeeded Lacépède in the chair of zoology at the Natural History Museum of Paris. Handsome copy in its publisher's boards. Lithographed title on front board within a fine frame. Some light foxing.
Rare.