Published by W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh, 1840
Seller: PEMBERLEY NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS BA, ABA, Iver, United Kingdom
First Edition
£ 90
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Add to basketCondition: Fair. xv, [2], 18-331, [1], engraved portrait, additional hand-col title vignette, 36 plates (31 hand-col + 5 plain). . HB. Sm. 8vo, orig. cloth, worn, rear joint split, spine defective with some loss. Slight crease to lower corner of frontispiece. One gathering starting. Plates clean. First edition. Includes a portrait and memoir of Baron de Geer, and a memoir of J. Swammerdam. Plates illustrate praying mantids, stick insects, dragonflies, grasshoppers, lanternflies, etc. Plates numbered 1-35, 37*. Nissen, ZBI 1202(1).