Voyage [...] en Éthiopie et en Afrique orientale anglaise (1904-1905). Résultats scientifiques. Animaux articulés [...].

3vols., folio. Text: xvii (= xviii)-[3]-1/482, [2]-483/1041-[3] pp. (= continuously paginated); 2 fold. maps.-- Atlas: [6] pp.; 100 pls. and 100 lvs. of explanatory text.

Cont. half red shagreen, red cloth on boards (sl. worn on joints)

First edition of this rare book. One of 400 copies (n. 41) ill. with 100 pls. (of which 84 finely hand-coloured, complete) and some drawings in text. Rothschild (1881-1957) "financed a collecting expedition in East Africa, travelling from Djibouti, across Eritrea to Ethiopia and Kenya. The specimens were presented to the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. A large number of entomologists, including Charles Rothschild, worked on the specimens and their descriptions - some in Latin - are published in the first two volumes of this publication. Sixty-eight specimens were named "rothschildi", although not all of these are known by this name today. The third volume occupied a similarly large number of artists and contains some exquisite colour illustrations of the insects" (https://family.rothschildarchive.org). Ref. Not in Nissen (BBi). Prov. Autogr. dedicace s. by the author in vol. 2: "A Monsieur Roudon, notre grand savant et collectionneur des Hautes Pyrénées [...]". Beside his interest in sciences, Rothschild was a political "deputy" (for the Hautes-Pyrénées region in France), art collector, vineyard owner and financier and politician in the Hautes-Pyrénées.