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HOPPE, David Heinrich. Enumeratio Insectorum Elytratorum Circa Erlangam Indigenarum secundam systema Fabricianum. Observationibus Iconibusque Illustrata. 1795.

Photo HOPPE, David Heinrich. 

HOPPE, David Heinrich. 

Enumeratio Insectorum Elytratorum Circa Erlangam Indigenarum secundam systema Fabricianum. Observationibus Iconibusque Illustrata. 

Erlangen, Palm, 1795.

8vo (224x143 mm), 70-(2) pages and 1 plate (colored).  binding : Later full vellum. Full margin copy. Uncut. Paper browned. 

Photo HOPPE, David Heinrich. 

First edition published at the same time as his thesis with a slightly different title.
David Heinrich Hoppe was a German physician, botanist and pharmacist and an entomologist.
In 1790, Hoppe founded Bavaria's first botanical society, the Regensburg Botanical Society, the oldest still-functioning botanical society in the world.
Three taxa are named by David Heinrich Hoppe in this books :
- Donacia dentata, a species of beetles of the subfamily Donaciinae.
- Donacia marginata, a species of beetle native to Europe.
- Graphoderus zonatus, a species of beetle from the Dytiscidae family.

provenance: Dr. Royer's Natural History Library (ex libris label on title page).

Price : 750 €

Photo HOPPE, David Heinrich. 
Photo HOPPE, David Heinrich. 
Photo HOPPE, David Heinrich. 
Photo HOPPE, David Heinrich. 
Photo HOPPE, David Heinrich. 
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