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Essig, E. O.

A History of Entomology. [Signed by the author].

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Essig, E. O.

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New York, NY, MacMillan, 1931. 8vo (21.5 x 14.4 cm). ix (including half-title and title page), 1029 pp.; 263 illustrations (including many portraits). Original blind-stamped burgundy cloth with gilt title on the spine. = First edition, with the signature of the American entomologist Edward Oliver Essig (1884-1964) on the title page. The Essig Museum of Entomology (Berkeley University) is named after him. This work was reprinted in 1965 and 1973, but this is the scarce original. With in the rear a series of biographies of important entomologists (with some bias towards those active in North America) and a chronological table showing the development and progress of entomology from around 1500 to 1927, and concluded with a large index. Light shelf wear, otherwise fine. Nissen ZBI, 6465.
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