Maurice ile

1922 · S54628 — Imprimerie Nationale 1922. 561 2 folding maps text figs. . PB. Folio. Orig. card wrappers partly water stained front cover detached spine split internally clean. Good. Scarce. Between 1904 and 1905 Maurice Edmond Charles de Rothschild 1881-1957 both led and financed an important collecting expedition in East Africa which commenced in Djibouti then travelled across Eritrea to Ethiopia and Kenya. The zoological specimens collected during the expedition were presented to the Mus�um national d'histoire naturelle Paris. The collecting results of the expedition were published in three volumes two volumes of text and an atlas of plates. Scarce Limited to 400 copies. Presented here is the second volume only which contains descriptions of all the Coleoptera Siphonaptera Diptera Hymenoptera and Supplement to Coleoptera. 483-1041 2 pp. accompanying plates were published in an atlas not present here. No. 261 of 400 copies. Imprimerie Nationale unknown