FABRE Jean-Henri (1823-1915) entomologiste.

AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIT, Le Scorpion languedocien..., [1905-1907]; 52 folio pages in a sewn notebook of 13 bifeuillets. First draft manuscript of nine chapters of Souvenirs entomologiques. This valuable first draft notebook gives the early version, with variants, of nine chapters of the ninth and tenth series of Souvenirs entomologiques (1905 and 1907). The leaves are filled with tiny handwriting, with numerous erasures and corrections. Some chapters do not yet have a title, and sometimes follow one another without separation. Le Scorpion languedocien - La famille (IX, xxiii), end of the chapter since: "This period maturing and preparing the emancipation lasts one week, just what lasts the period when the singular work is done which, without food, triples the volume"... - The Kermès of the yeuse (IX, xxv). - Notes on the web of the spiders; bibliographical references. - [The Minotaur Typheus. The burrow] (X, i). - The Minotaur Typheus. - The household (X, ii). - [The Minotaur Typheus. The morality and the second apparatus of observation] (X, iv and iii). - The Onthophagus bull (X, vii-viii). - The Cione (X, v).