Stainton, H.T. (et al). The Natural History of the Tineina. Volumes I to XIII. 1st. Ed. Pub. John van Voorst. 1855-1873
Thirteen volume set with 104 hand-coloured plates. 8vo. Hardbacks. Bookplate to Vol. 1. Some darkening and / or spotting to end-papers and the occ. title page. Some sections uncut. Elsewhere only minor spotting or marginal darkening, o/w. contents fine. Publisher’s blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and blind rules to boards, nr. fine to fine. A very pleasing set indeed.
‘Distinguished for its beautiful hand-coloured plates of larvae, many of them drawn by [William] Buckler. The text is uniquely in four languages, English, French, German and Latin - Stainton was fluent in all of them - arranged in parallet columns’ (Salmon).
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