München, Zoologische Staatssammlung München, 1992. 8vo (24.0 x 16.9 cm). 440 pp.; full colour frontispiece, 553 text illustrations. Laminated pictorial softcover.

A major monograph by the German entomologist Martin Baehr (1943-2019), discussing, describing and illustrating 132 species and one subspecies of Australian carabid beetles. Many are new. "There is no doubt that Dr. Martin Baehr was one of the great masters of beetle taxonomy of the past 50 years. His oeuvre is outstanding, in 384 publications Martin described 2098 new species and subspecies together with 76 higher ranked taxa. ... [H]is main focus was the Carabidae of Australia which he described and revised on thousands of pages after travelling thousands of kilometres on his collection trips and spending many more thousands of hours at the microscope." (Pillukat & Melzer). Published as Supplement 18 of Spixiana. Number written in the top margin of the front cover; stamp in the lower margin of the contents page, otherwise an "as new" copy. Pillukat, A. & R. R. Melzer (2020) Dr. Martin Baehr (*10.3.1943, †17.4.2019) Obituary honouring his scientific achievements in: Spixiana 43: 1-35.