Search Results: a manual of british butterflies and by stainton ht

London: John Van Voorst. 1859. 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall. First Thus Collectible. H Original Cloth. Very Good. In original brown cloth with gilt spine titling and borders stamped in blind to boards, 8vo xi+480pp. Volume II only. (light rubbing and wear to edges, tips and corners, spine lightly faded).

London: Van Voorst, 1857-1859. xii, 338; xii, 480, text engravings. . HB. 2 vols bound in one, 12mo, cont. half calf, marbled boards, endpapers and edges, rubbed and scuffed; a few small paint marks to rear board. Small blind stamp and erased ink stamp to title pages of both vols. Good.. First edition. Vol. I: Butterflies & Stout-bodied Moths; Vol II: Slender-bodied & Small Moths..

Van Voorst. -, 18571859. 1st. Ed.. Two volume set with b/w. illus. throughout. Small 8vo. Hardbacks. Some neat, early and informed annotations to text, with some illus. hand-coloured. Contents in nr. fine condition. Contemporary half calf leather over marbled boards in good to vg. condition showing some rubbing and minor shelf wear. A very useable set. Henry Tibbats Stainton (1822-1892) was editor of The Entomologist’s Annual and the Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer. Quite remarkably, in 1937, P.B.M Allan said of Stainton’s ‘A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths’ that it was indispensible (Salmon).

2 vols: London, 1859. Gebunden John van Voorst Zeichnungen ausgeblichen Ecken und Ruecken nur leicht bestossen