Author: Humphreys, H.N. and Westwood, J.O.
Title: British Moths and their Transformations, 2 volumes
Description: London: William Smith, 1857 Pp. xiv, 258; xix, 268, 124 fine hand-colored lithographed plates. Publisher's original wine red pebble cloth, spine gilt-lettered and with elaborate gilt floral decorations, front covers with gilt-pictorial image of moths, 4to. The fine hand-colored plates display the moths next to the plants and flowers they inhabit. Slight edge wear to cloth, some uniform age-toning to the text leaves with a touch of scattered foxing, the fine hand-colored plates are bright and clean with no browning or foxing; an attractive copy in very good condition..

Keywords: Entomology butterflies moths lepidopterans lepidoptera Great Britain England United Kingdom Europe


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