The Aurelian: or, natural history of British insects, namely, moths and butterflies.
HARRIS, Moses.
The Aurelian: or, natural history of British insects, namely, moths and butterflies.
The Aurelian: or, natural history of British insects, namely, moths and butterflies.
Together with the plants on which they feed.
Stock Code 110313
London, For the Author, 1766 [1773].
Plates 17 and 35 are in their first state with the original dedications.
From the library of Montagu George Knight (1844-1914) of Chawton, great nephew of Jane Austen. The book was listed in the Godmersham Park library catalogue (the library was moved to Chawton before Godmersham was sold in 1874).
First edition, second issue; folio (47 x 28.2 cm); large paper copy, engraved vignette on title-page, engraved coloured schematic plate in preliminaries, 44 hand-coloured engraved plates (the final plate dated 1773, all watermarked Villedary), final letterpress index leaf; contemporary speckled calf, single gilt fillet border, lacking frontispiece portrait, occasional light offsetting from colouring, rebacked retaining original spine, spine repaired at head and foot
ESTC T22753 (listing 3 copies); Lisney 230.
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