(SCIENTISTS) FABRE JEAN HENRI Autograph Manuscript unsigned

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"THE CRAB SPIDER" (SCIENTISTS.) FABRE, JEAN-HENRI. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, draft of a portion of his Souvenirs Entomologiques, with holograph section titles beginning with "L'Araignée-crabe" and numerous holograph corrections throughout, in French. 46 pages, folio, folded sheets bound together with cord; faint foxing scattered throughout, moderate even toning. Np, circa 1905

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"The Spider that made me witness the full magnificence of the exodus is called, according to the official nomenclature, Thomisus onustus Walck. . . ."
"The Crab-Spider" appears as chapter V in Souvenirs Entomologiques: 9th Series (1905). Although the opening sentence of the present manuscript is identical to the first sentence of that chapter, the draft and the published work begin to differ thereafter.