Insectes Coleopetres – AA1875

Natural History – Dumond D’ Urville

Insectes Coleopetres by C.E. Blanchard

Hand coloured steel engravings of beetle specimens from Ambon (Moluccas), New Zealand and Tonga. Single folio sheet, plate size 400 x 270 mm, drawn by Blanchard, engraved by Mme Egasse, printed by Gide; being Plate 9 from the Atlas volume of Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage au Pole Sud et dans I’Oceanie sur les Corvettes I’Astrolabe et la Zelee, pendant les annees, 1837-40 (Paris’ Hombron et Jacquinot, 1842).

Mild water stain to upper left margin, not affecting the plate, which is in fine condition.

Unframed 31.5 cm x 51 cm