At Gallica you can peruse Léon Becker’s Alphabet Des Insectes from 1883. Its scanned pages and illustrations are grlorious. Read it here.
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At Gallica you can peruse Léon Becker’s Alphabet Des Insectes from 1883. Its scanned pages and illustrations are grlorious. Read it here.
Categories: Notes
Tagged as: 1880s, 2020s, Alphabet des Insectes, animals, book history, books, France, illustration, insects, Léon Becker, scans, The Alphabet of Insects
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