Léon Fairmaire – Les Coléoptères. Histoire naturelle de la France – 1923

99,00

Details: 505 pp – half sheepskin – 18.8 x 12 cm

8ème Part with 27 plates out of text in colour and 271 figures in the text – New edition completely redone by Louis Marie Planet Membre de la société Entomologique de France -Paris Les Fils d’Emile Deyrolle, 1923

Author: Léon Fairmaire

Publisher : Paris Les Fils d’Emile Deyrolle (1923)

Language: French

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Description

Léon Marc Herminie Fairmaire (29 June 1820 – 1 April 1906) was a French entomologist.

A specialist in Coleoptera he assembled an immense collection comparable with that of Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean (1780-1845). This is in the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle. Fairmaire wrote 450 scientific papers and other publications relating to Coleoptera (partial list of papers in Wikispecies). He also worked on Hemiptera.