RATZEBURG, Julius Theodor Christian (Edgar Bourée de CORBERON, transl.).
Les hylophtires et leurs ennemis, ou description et iconographie des insectes les plus nuisibles aux forèts, ainsi que des autres animaux causant des dégâts dans les bois, avec une méthode pour apprendre à les détruire et à ménager ceux qui leur font la guerre.
Nordhansen, Leipzig, B.G.H. Schmidt, 1842. Large 8vo. With 4 folding tables, 2 woodcuts in text and 6 full-page engraved plates, one with useful insects and five with harmful insects, all six hand-coloured by the publisher. Original green publisher's printed paper wrappers over stiff boards. XXXIV, 246 pp.
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French translation of a pioneering ecological treatise and one of the earliest scientific studies on noxious wood insects. It was first published in German as Die Waldverderber und ihre Feinde in 1841, followed by a second expanded edition in 1842. Count Edgar Bourée de Corberon (1807-1861) published his present French translation of the expanded edition in 1842, adding a 21-page preface, some notes to the text and a 21-page French glossary. These valuable additions make the present edition more than a mere translation.
Ratzeburg (1801-1871), pioneered the scientific study of the damage or destruction of trees by insects. With Waldverderber und Ihre Feinde he for the first time devoted a separate publication to the subject, with fine steel-engravings. The Waldverderber quickly became a standard work on the subject and appeared in many editions to 1876. Hagen I, p. 138; Horn & Schenkling 3859 (cf. 17685); cf. Arnold Arboretum I, p. 582; Hagen II, p. 62; Nissen ZBI 3309 (German eds.).
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