MÖLLER, Christian Heinrich.
Lexicon Entomologicum, oder entomologisches Wörterbuch, in welchem alle in diese Wissenschaft einschlagende Begriffe und die in den Linneischen und Fabrizischen Schriften vorkommende Terminologien überstezt, erklärt und mit Beyspielen, nach beyden Systemen, erläutert werden.
Erfurt, Georg Adam Keyser, 1795. 8vo. Contemporary blue boards. XVI, 704 pp.
€ 975
First edition of an entomological dictionary, compiled by Christian Heinrich Möller. It lists the Latin nomenclature of numerous words commonly used when describing insects, followed by their German translations. The book opens with an introduction and closes with a register.
With the bookplate of the German entomologist Georg Frey (1902-1976) on back paste-down. Binding rubbed along the extremities, slightly stained and spine discoloured. Hagen I, p. 544; Horn & Schenkling 15259.
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