GERMAR, Ernst Friedrich (editor).
Zeitschrift für die Entomologie. Erster [-Fünfter] Band.
Leipzig, Friedrick Fleischer, 1839-1844. 10 parts in 5 volumes, bound as 6. 8vo. With 15 numbered plates, including 5 hand-coloured engravings. Including 2 publisher's advertisements "Ankündigung die Forsetzung von Wiegmann's Archiv für Naturgeschichte betreffend" (2 pp.) and "Nachricht für Freunde der Enteimologie" (4 ll.). Modern green boards with original wrappers bound in. VII, [1], 196; [4], 193-400, [3], [1 blank]; [4], 240; [6], 241-450; [8], 408; [6], 434, [6]; VI, 482 pp.
€ 750
All parts published of an entomological periodical edited by Ernst Friedrich Germar (1786-1853), a German professor and director of the Mineralogical Museum at Halle, with a special interest in entomology. Including articles by Germar, Erichson, Döbner, Westwood, Herrich-Schäffer, Burmeister, Schmidt, Hartig, Gravenhorst, Schaum, Siebold and many others. The periodical was later continued as Linnaea Entomologica.
In good condition, with library stamps in the first and last volume, some occasional foxing. Rare. BMC NH, p. 2384; Hagen I, p. 275; Horn & Schenkling 7608.
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