Duncan, J., (Jardine, Sir W. (Ed.)). British Moths. A Complete Description of the Larvae and Full-Grown Insects of our Native Species. Pub. W.H. Allen. [n.d. c. 1840]
pp.268 with engraved portrait as frontis., illus. half-title and 30 hand-coloured plates. 8vo. Inscription to ffep. Minor foxing, o/w., contents fine. Original, decorated blue cloth boards lightly marked and darkened on spine, o/w. thor. vg.
From ‘The Naturalist’s Library’ series. With a memoir of Maria Sibilla Merian, whose work illustrates the text.
£100.00 [Ref: 59061]