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British Butterflies and Their Transformations.
British Butterflies and Their Transformations.
British Butterflies and Their Transformations.
British Butterflies and Their Transformations.
British Butterflies and Their Transformations.

WESTWOOD, John Obadiah; HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel (illus.)

British Butterflies and Their Transformations.

London, Thomas Sanderson, 1841.

$1,291.00
$1,291.00

British Butterflies and Their Transformations.

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"A high, and arguably unequalled standard in Victorian butterfly book illustration" (Dunbar).

Westwood, a distinguished entomologist and member of the Linnean Society, collaborated in writing the text to accompany the charming paintings by Humphreys. Each print depicts several species artistically composed among the flowering caterpillar food plants, and in many instances the caterpillar and chrysalis are shown. Some of the grander European species are also shown.

First edition; 4to (28 x 23 cm); bookplate to pastedown, additional hand-coloured pictorial half-title, 42 lithograph plates by H. N. Humphreys, printed in colours and finished by hand, paper flaw to p. 45, spotting to endpapers; half green morocco over marbled paper boards, spine gilt, all edges gilt, a little rubbing to extremities; [2], xii, 138, [2] pp.

Stock code 122481

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British Butterflies and Their Transformations.

British Butterflies and Their Transformations.

$1,291.00
$1,291.00

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First edition of Edward Donovan's important and beautifully hand-coloured entomological work, Epitome of the Natural Histry of the Insects of China, published in 1798.
First edition of Edward Donovan's important and beautifully hand-coloured entomological work, Epitome of the Natural Histry of the Insects of China, published in 1798.

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A handsomely bound set of John Obadiah Westwood's British Butterflies and British Moths, the classic colour-plate work on the subject.
A handsomely bound set of John Obadiah Westwood's British Butterflies and British Moths, the classic colour-plate work on the subject.

WESTWOOD, John Obadiah.
British Butterflies and their Transformations; [and] British Moths and their Transformations. 1857.
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"A scarce treasure for the collector", with hand-coloured lithographic plates of moths in a contemporary gilt-morocco binding.
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