Amyot, C.-J.-B. & J.G. Audinet Serville — Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères.

1843 lxxvi, 675, [1], 6 p., 12 beautifully hand-coloured pls, contemporary green hcalf (spine gilt, black labels). Some scattered slight foxing in the text, plates clean. Ex library Claude Gouffé. This is Charles Jean Baptise Amyot (1799-1866) and Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville's (1775-1858) most important work in the field of Hemiptera, and was published by Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret as part of the ''Suites à Buffon''. This is a very good copy of one of the rarer volumes in the series. Furthermore it is the scarce coloured edition in an beautiful period binding.