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by throwaway1239Mx 2540 days ago
The thicker one (in english) may be somewhat difficult to find.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/works-of-jh-fabre/oclc/316395...

As far as I can tell, there are 3 locations (one in The British Library, St. Pancras under a slightly different entry) in Worldcat, and nothing recently (re)published or scanned, apart from various selections concerning specific insects.

If someone knows otherwise, please do share!
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throwaway1239Mx 2540 days ago
The final volume in Teixeira's series (at least, that published on the US side of the pond, and available online) appears to be the Life of the Scorpion (https://archive.org/details/lifeofscorpion00fabr/) which unfortunately does not have his name attached in the metadata. It is also lacking a translator's note (as he died in 1921, and published 1923, that's not entirely surprising.).

The list of translations at the beginning of Life of the Scorpion, however, appears to be the best aggregation for my above question. Note that 'More Hunting Wasps' also does not appear with Teixeira's name attached in archive.org.

Florence Bicknell also translated what appears to be a rather excellent series on science and natural philosophy by J.H. Fabre, which is freely available: https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Bicknell%2..., though these lack the fine illustrations in the OP.

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