Search Results: exposition of english insects including the by moses harris

Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-05-29. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: Sold by Mr White & Mr Robson, 1782. (2), viii, (9-)166, (4), 51 plates. . HB. 4to, half leather, marbled boards, corners bumped + worn, spine heavily scuffed. Engraved title page, plain anatomical plate, 50 engraved plates (only one has been hand-coloured). Lacks engraved frontis. Signature to endpaper of Rosa Emily Allen (1823-1871), Cross House Ilminster, daughter of the headmaster of a local school, Rev. John Allen (1799-1855).. 2nd edition. Of the 50 plates of insects in the ‘Exposition’ seven are of dragonflies..

London: Sold by Mr. White, bookseller, in Fleet-street, & Mr. Robson, in New Bond street, 1782. Quarter-Calf. Near Fine+. Tall uncut Second Edition (First Issue, with hand-colored allegorical frontispiece of sylvan scene with various insects and animals at foot of pedestal holding statue of Ceres and catchword on p. 40 corrected) of this classic of eighteenth-century entomology. Royal 4to (317 x 240mm): [2],viii,9-166,[4]pp, complete with 50 delicately hand-coloured plates, depicting more than 500 individual moths, dragonflies, damselflies, bees, wasps, and other insects drawn from life, engraved, and colored by Moses Harris; engraved calligraphic title page, and uncolored engraved plate with numbered parts of insects keyed to explanations in the Preface. Text in English and French in double columns. Contemporary quarter green calf, original flat spine (very skillfully relaid) in six compartment divided by gilt bands, title direct to second compartment in gilt, marbled boards. Previous owner 's name… Read More