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London, William and Robert Chambers, 1860., 1860. 4to. New and revised ed. 218mm x 276mm. 2 vols. 124 hand-coloured litho plates, contemporary printer's cloth with gilt lettering. Cloth faded, fore corners rubbed, Spines relaid, some darkening of paper, a few marginal notes in pencil, sporadic foxing. Plates generally clean and bright with a very few slightly affected by light foxing.. Hardcover . Good.
British Moths and Their Transformations (2 Vols.) by Humphreys, H.N. And Westwood, J.O - 1843
by Humphreys, H.N. And Westwood, J.O
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British Moths and Their Transformations (2 Vols.)
by Humphreys, H.N. And Westwood, J.O
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London: William Smith, 1843. Bookplate of Ganci on front pastedowns. Vol. 1 has upper hinge starting; all other hinges solid. Green morocco spines and tips rubbed and bumped with some material loss. All boards rubbed; marbled boards and matching endpapers. TEG. Spines with 5 raised bands rubbed and gilt titling and volume lettering directly on morocco in panels 2 and 4. 124 plates depicting the moths all present. Small top marginal stain on pgs. 21-69 in Vol. 1 not affecting text. Some irregular minor staining in Vol. 2 on top edge not affecting text. Some faint foxing throughout.. First Edition. Half-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Humpreys, H.N.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade.
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- Date Published 1843
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London: Wm. S. Orr & Co and William Smith, 1849. Three volumes, quarto, profusely illustrated with full-page plates exquisitely hand-coloured; uniformly bound in half morocco richly gilt, all edges gilt, with the gilt arms of the Barons Sherborne. A remarkable collaboration and an exquisite work of Victorian natural history. As one of the pre-eminent entomologists of the Victorian period, John Obadiah Westwood (1805-1893) served as collaborator, editor, and consultant on many entomological publications. He was a prodigious author and researcher, publishing some four hundred scientific papers and some twenty books, as well as making numerous contributions to works by other authors. In 1833, he was one of the founding members of the Entomological Society and he became honorary life president in 1883, and a fellow of the Linnaean Society. It was for his study of Australian species that Anthony Musgrave, author of the Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775-1930, named the period 1831-1861 "The…
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