1829 GUÉRIN ICONOGRAPHIE CUVIER Colored BEETLES Engraving: INSECTES Pl. 45

Description: Scarce 1829 Hand-Colored Steel-Plate Stipple-Engraving from: ICONOGRAPHY OF ANIMAL KINGDOM BY G. CUVIER, INSECTES Pl. 24 (1. Acrocinus trochlearis 2. Lamia aurocincta 3. Tetraopes dimidiata 4. Saperda albicans 5. Salperda atkinsoni 6. Distichocera macuticollis 7. Tmesisternus bixonulatus8. Tragocerus bidentatus 9. Leptocera bilineata) An exquisite, large, hand-colored engraving comes from this famous work by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville.(Full title: Iconography of the animal kingdom by G. Cuvier, or, Representation from nature of one of the most and often not yet figured species of each genus of animals: with a descriptive text updated on science : work that can serve as an atlas for all zoology treatises )The original iconic plates from the Iconographie are now very hard to find, original hand-colored ones are much more scarce yet, & this large-paper, un-trimmed version, especially in this kind of pristine quality, are truly rare. I've assembled a group of some of the best of them, collected from Europe years ago, most of these are virtually unfindable. These engravings are gems, printed on a heavy, smooth, quality, creamy paper, extravagant for plates of the era. The Volumes: The four-volume set of the plate volumes to Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville's Iconographie du rêve animal de G. Cuvier , (Iconography of the Animal Kingdom by G. Cuvier) It contained a total of 448 handcolored copperplate engravings and two engraved portraits of Cuvier and Latreille. The plates were printed and hand-colored by Remond, engraved by Jean-Dominique-Étienne Canu and Eugene Giraud after illustrations by Edouard Travies, Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville and Louis Victor Bévalet. The stipple engraved plates very finely colored by hand, finished with gum arabic, some fish plates highlighted with silver. The series was a complement to Georges Cuvier and Pierre André Latreille's Le Regne Animal which was published without illustrations until the famous disciples' edition. Guerin aimed to "draw from life the most remarkable species of each genus of animals," and often depicted species that had not been previously figured. Cuvier himself praised the illustrations "as accurate as they were elegant." (Anker 191) The Editor:Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, also known as FE Guerin, (12 October 1799, in Toulon – 26 January 1874, in Paris) was a French entomologist. He was the author of the illustrated work Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier 1829–1844, a complement to the work of the zoologists Georges Cuvier and Pierre André Latreille, Le Règne Animal , which illustrated only a selection of the animals covered. Cuvier was delighted with the work, saying that it would be very useful to readers, and that the illustrations were "as accurate as they were elegant" He also introduced silkworms to France, so they could be bred for the production of silk. Guérin-Méneville founded several journals: Magazine of Zoology, Comparative Anatomy and Paleontology (1830), Revue zoological by the Cuvierian Society (1838), Revue and Magasin of pure and applied zoology (1849), and Revue de sericulture (1863 ). He was editor of Dictionnaire Pittoresque d’Histoire Naturelle. The Artists:Edouard Travies, Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville and Louis Victor Bévalet were some of the best natural history artists of the era, & among the best of the genre anywhere. The Plates:Every part of these prints was made by hand: Hand drawn & engraved on Copper or Steel, which was hand-mined, smelted & rolled, printed onto handmade cotton rag paper, inked & colored with hand-ground pigments individually by hand, & they were usually hand sewn into handmade leather-bound books.Condition: Appears to be in Excellent condition for a centuries-old engraving. The hand-coloring appears to remain sharp & brilliant. Typical age-toning & character for a print this old. Overall looks to me to be a near pristine copy with the typical character for a plate nearly 200 years-old. Please peruse the detailed photos.These prints are very old & may have minor imperfections expected with age, such as some typical age-toning of the paper, oxidation of the old original watercolors, spots, text-offsetting, artifacts from having been bound into a book, etc. Please examine the photos & details carefully.Text Page(s): This one comes without original text page(s). I've added a scan of a sample cover page from one of the volumes to the listing photos for reference, it's not part of the listing. About these gorgeous creatures:Macropophora trochlearis is a species of beetle that was first described by Carl von Linné in 1758. It belongs to the genus Macropophora and the family longhorns.Phryneta aurocincta is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1832, originally under the genus Lamia. It has a wide distribution throughout Africa. Astathes dimidiata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Hippolyte Louis Gory in 1844. It is known from Java, Borneo, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Thailand. Trichohippopsides albicans Breuning is another longhorn beetle (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns. All known longhorn beetle larvae feed on plant tissue such as stems, trunks, or roots of both herbaceous and woody plants, often in injured or weak trees. Adisura atkinsoni, the field-bean pod borer, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Frederic Moore in 1881. It is found in southern Africa & Asia. (This may be a misnomer).Distichocera macuticollis is another longhorned beetle, apparently from Australia. Tmesisternus bizonulatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1831. Tragocerus is a genus of longhorn beetle from western regions of Australia. Sphaenothecus bilineatus, the double-banded bycid, is a species of long-horned beetle in the family Cerambycidae Size: 8.5 x 11 inches approximately. Shipping: Multiple prints combine into one USPS Flat-Rate envelope. If you'd like to combine & need more time to choose, please send a message & we'll do our best to oblige. If you're assessed multiple shipping for one combined package, we'll attempt to refund any overage asap. Thanks for Visiting!

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