British Beetles: An Introduction to the Study of Our Indigenous Coleoptera

An uncommon second edition of this illustrated entomological study of British beetles from English natural historian Edward Caldwell Rye. Second edition. Uncommon work. Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixteen colour plates to the rear and numerous in-text figures. Collated complete. A detailed introductory study into those beetles indigenous to the British Isles, with chapters on the relations and divisions of the class insecta, their structure and metamorphoses, hints on collecting, and explorations of the different families and their identifying factors. Written by Edward Caldwell Rye, an English natural historian and entomologist who was the father of entomologist Bertram George Rye. Revised and in part re-written by Reverend Canon Fowler, the secretary to the Entomological Society of London and editor of the "Entomologist's Monthly Magazine". With sixteen pages of advertisements to the rear. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. The odd small mark to the cloth. Front hinge just starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Age toning to the endpapers. Very Good.…