Wood, W. (and Westwood, J.O.) Index Entomologicus; or, a Complete Illustrated Catalogue, consisting of upwards of 2000 accurately coloured figures of the Lepidopterous Insects of Great Britain. New Rev. Ed. Pub. Willis. 1854
pp.[ii], viii, 298 plus 59 hand-coloured plates. 8vo. Hardback. TEG. With armorial bookplate of James Milnes Stansfield to front pastedown and neat signature of E.H.B. Stansfield to title page. Some scattered spotting to fore-edges of text block and to ends, only minor spotting elsewhere o/w. contents fine. Handsomely bound in contemporary green half morocco, spine richly decorated in gilt with butterfly patterns, over marbled boards lightly rubbed to extremities o/w. in thor. vg. condition. An attractive copy.
A new revised edition, with supplement by J.O. Westwood.
£350.00 [Ref: 71978]