British Moths and their transformations with British Butterflies and their transformations

by Henry Noel Humphreys, John Obadiah Westwood

$5,500 · Offered by Hordern House

London: Wm. S. Orr & Co and William Smith, 1841-1849. 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 paean to the beauty of butterflies and the under-appreciated moth

• Binding: Leather

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