Manuel entomologique : Genera des coléoptères d'Europe comprenant leur classification en familles naturelles, la description de tous les genres, des tableaux dichotomiques destinés à faciliter l'étude, le catalogue de toutes les espèces

First edition.
Black paper boards, spine with blindruled fillets, blindruled fillet frame to covers, marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
Complete with 293 finely colored plates showing the 1,600 varieties of coleoptera, drawn and painted mostly by Jules Migneaux, whose painstaking work was finished off by Théophile Deyrolle.
Similarly, the text was completed by Léon Fairmaire.
Skillfully repaired tear to title page of first volume.
Very occasional spots.
A good and rare set complete in four volumes.