1837-1838 The Coleopterist's Manual Containing the Lamellicorn Insects of Linneus and Fabricus The Coleopterist's Manual, Part the Second Containing the Predaceous Land and Water Beetles of Linneus and Fabricius

Description

Author's Presentation Copy, Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Scarce, Signed

The first edition of both works.

With a hand coloured frontispiece and three partially hand coloured plates to both works. Collated complete.

With presentation inscriptions from the author to the front endpapers of both volumes, presenting the work to the Natural History Society of Shrewsbury. 

Institutional copies, with stamps and bookplates to preliminaries of both works. 

The Coleopterist's Manual is considered a foundational text on the study of beetles and details exotic and British beetle species with descriptions, classifications, and notes on habitat. Aimed at naturalists and collectors, Hope’s work significantly advanced entomological studies and taxonomy, reflecting the Victorian era’s growing interest in biodiversity and scientific discovery.

A third volume was also published in 1840.

A scarce signed pair of these important texts.