A History of British Butterflies
A History of British Butterflies
A History of British Butterflies
A History of British Butterflies
A History of British Butterflies

INVENTORY #146454

A History of British Butterflies

MORRIS, Francis Orpen

$600.00 Sale

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A classic work on butterlies with lovely coloured plates, each featuring more than one illustration. Bookplate for Edward Barrett Curteis, English Whig politician who was an MP for Rye, Sussex. Thomas Elliott of Playden also lived near Rye. Smaller label for Walter Ambrose Heath Harding (1870-1942) of Madingley Hall, Cambridge, a well-known zoologist.

Publication Info

  • Publisher: Groombridge and Sons
  • Edition: n/a
  • Date Published: 1857
  • Place Published: London
  • ISBN: n/a

Details

  • Condition: Good
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Details:
    vi, 168 p. 25 cm. 71 hand-coloured lithograhic plates. 2 b&w p. of equipment illustrations near front. Full leather with blank and gilt impressing. All edges gilt. Spine faded. Corners bumped. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown for Edward Barrett Curteis as well as a smaller label for W. A. Harding, Madingley. Ink signature on title page for Thomas Elliott of Playden, Sussex. Foxing is mainly to first and last pages.

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