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First edition.
First volume devoted to botany, insects, inventors and scientists, of this scientific series.
Two tears repaired to the joints, interior foxing.

Third edition largely in first printing.
Half tan sheep bindings, smooth spines decorated with gilt rolls and fillets, a small lack of paper on the first board of the third volume, contemporary bindings.
Work illustrated with woodcut figures in the text and 19 steel-engraved plates.
Gift inscriptions, copies virtually free from foxing.

New edition, featuring an introduction by Georges Crappe. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Inscribed by Georges Crappe. Minor loss to the head of the sunned spine, internally a very good copy.

First edition of this article published in the journal 'Les archives de parasitologie'.
Partially erased autograph inscription from the author on the front cover, covers detached, handsome interior condition.
Rare.

First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint.
First cover detached with slight corner losses, worming to second cover, handsome interior condition.
Rare.

First edition of this lecture given at the Palais de la découverte on November 17, 1940.
Rare and handsome copy.