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<dl><dd>Publication information from NUC pre-56, v. 58, p. 227</dd>
<dd>"Printed by Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street"--Colophon</dd>
<dd>Issued in parts</dd>
<dd>Cover-title: Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Ed. by F. Du Cane Godman and Osbert Salvin</dd>
<dd>August 1808-1905, edited by F. Du Cane Godman</dd>
<dd>Plates signed: W. Purkiss del. et lith.; Hanhart imp.; M. Freih. v. Schlereth; Vienna, Bannwarth Th. imp.; E. Wilson del. et lith., Cambridge; M.A. Sharp del.; Mintern Bros. imp.; Maud Horman-Fisher del. et lith.; lith. &amp; imp. Camb. Sci. Inst. Co.; G.S. Saunders del. et lith.; H. Knight del.; Bale &amp; Danielsson Ltd. imp</dd>
<dd>Collation of each v.: v. 1, pt. 1[=v. 15 of the BCA]: x, 316 p., 13 leaves of plates; v. 1, pt. 2[=v. 16 of the BCA]: xv, [1], 824 p., 19 leaves of plates; v. 2, pt. 1[=v. 17 of the BCA]: xii, 717, [1] p., 19 leaves of plates; v. 2, pt. 2[=v. 18 of the BCA]: xii, 432 p., 24 leaves of plates; v. 3, pt. 1[=v. 19 of the BCA]: xv, [1], 690 p., 27 leaves of plates; v. 3, pt. 2[=v. 20 of the BCA]: xii, 372 p., 13 leaves of plates; v. 4, pt. 1[=v. 21 of the BCA]: xxxiv, 572 p., 23 leaves of plates; v. 4, pt. 2[=v. 22 of the BCA]: x, 494 p., 21 leaves of plates; v. 4, pt. 3[=v. 23 of the BCA]: vi, 354 p., 15 leaves of plates; v. 4, pt. 4[=v. 24 of the BCA]: vii, [1], 750 p., 35 leaves of plates; v. 4, pt. 5[=v. 25 of the BCA]: vii, [1], 513, [1] p., 23 leaves of plates; v. 4, pt. 6[=v. 26 of the BCA]:[6], 396 p., 14 leaves of plates; v. 4, pt. 7[=v. 27 of the BCA]: vi, 221 p., 9 leaves of plates; v. 5[=v. 28 of the BCA]: xii, 525, [1] p., 26 leaves of plates; v. 6, pt. 1[=v. 29 of the BCA]: xix, [1], 625 p.; v. 6, pt. 1 Suppl.[=v. 30 of the BCA]: [3], 374 p., 43 leaves of plates; v. 6, pt. 2[=v. 31 of the BCA]: x, 249, [1] p., 13 leaves of plates; v. 7[=v. 32 of the BCA]: xii, 276 p., 13 leaves of plates</dd>
<dd>Most of the volumes include errata information in their preliminaries</dd>
<dd>action: extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX</dd>
<dd>Includes bibliographical references and indexes</dd>
<dd>I. pt. 1. [Adephaga] by H.W. Bates ... 1881-84. pt. 2. [Adephaga] by David Sharp ... 1882-87.--II. pt. 1. [Pselaphidæ, etc.] by David Sharp ... the Rev. Andrew Matthews and George Lewis ... 1887-1905. pt. 2. Pectinicornia and Lamellicornia, by H.W. Bates ... 1886-90.--III. pt. 1. Serricornia: Buprestidæ, by C.O. Waterhouse ... Throscidæ and Eucnemidæ, by Dr. G. Horn (with supplement by G.C. Champion) ... Elateridæ-Dascillidæ, by G.C. Champion ... 1882-97. pt. 2. Malacodermata, by the Rev. H.S. Gorham ... 1880-86.--IV. pt. 1-2. Heteromera, by G.C. Champion. 1884-93. pt. 3. Rhynchophora, by David Sharp and G.C. Champion ... 1889-1911. pt. 4-5. Rhynchophora: Curculionidæ, by G.C. Champion. 1902-09. pt. 6. Rhynchophora: [Brenthidæ, by D. Sharp. Scolytidæ, by W.F.H. Blandford. Anthribidæ, by K. Jordan] 1895-1907. pt. 7. Rhychophora: Curculionidæ, by G.C. Champion. 1909-10.--V. Longicornia, by H.W. Bates. Bruchides, by David Sharp. 1879-86.--VI. pt. 1 and supplement. Phytophaga, by Martin Jacoby ... 1880-92. pt. 2. Phytophaga: Hispidæ, by J.S. Baly, with an appendix by G.C. Champion ... Cassididæ, by G.C. Champion ... 1885-94.--VII. Erotylidæ, Endomychidæ and Coccinellidæ, by the Rev. H.S. Gorham. 1887-99</dd>
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<dd>SCNHRB copy is bound in 17 v. (v. 26 and 27 are bound together)</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy of v. 17 (v. 2, pt. 1) has a later blue buckram binding with gilt-lettered spine, which may indicate it was one of the remaindered copies reissued by Quaritch</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy of v. 21 has plate 12 misbound after plate 13</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy has bookplate of Thomas Lincoln Casey in v. 15-16, 18-28, and 30-31; the ink stamp "Smithsonian Libraries, Jan. 8, 1970" appears on most t.p.'s</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy has ms. annotations in ink and pencil in most of the volumes; v. 29 and 32 have a few slips with ms. notes tipped in</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy has most volumes bound in later brown buckram with gilt-lettered spines and gray endpapers; v. 17 is bound in later blue buckram with gilt-lettered spine; v. 24 is bound in later brown half-leather with marbled paper boards, raised bands, gilt-tooled spine, and red sprinkled edges; vols. 16, 18, 20, and 28 are housed in green cloth-covered boxes for preservation</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Beetles; Beetles</div>
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<dl><dd>Godman, Frederick Du Cane, 1834-1919</dd>
<dd>Salvin, Osbert, 1835-1898</dd>
<dd>Baly, Joseph Sugar, 1817-1890</dd>
<dd>Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892</dd>
<dd>Blandford, William Fielding Holloway, 1864-</dd>
<dd>Champion, George Champion</dd>
<dd>Gorham, Henry Stephen</dd>
<dd>Horn, George H. (George Henry), 1840-1897</dd>
<dd>Jacoby, Martin, 1842-1907</dd>
<dd>Jordan, Karl, 1861-1959</dd>
<dd>Lewis, George, 1839-1926</dd>
<dd>Matthews, A. (Andrew), 1815-1897</dd>
<dd>Sharp, David, 1840-1922</dd>
<dd>Waterhouse, Charles Owen, 1843-1917</dd>
<dd>Purkiss, W., lithographer</dd>
<dd>Schlereth, M. v., Freih., ill</dd>
<dd>Bannwarth, Th., lithographer</dd>
<dd>Wilson, Edwin, 1855?-1915, ill</dd>
<dd>Sharp, M. A., ill</dd>
<dd>Horman-Fisher, Maud, ill</dd>
<dd>Saunders, G. S., ill</dd>
<dd>Knight, H., ill</dd>
<dd>Hanhart, printer of plates</dd>
<dd>Casey, Thos. L. (Thomas Lincoln), 1857-1925, former owner. DSI</dd>
<dd>Bale &amp; Danielsson, printer of plates</dd>
<dd>Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, printer of plates</dd>
<dd>Mintern Bros., printer of plates</dd>
<dd>Taylor &amp; Francis, printer</dd>
<dd>Bernard Quaritch (Firm), distributor. DSI</dd></dl></div>
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