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1832 The Book of Butterflies, Sphinxes and Moths Illustrated by Ninety-Six Engravings Coloured After Nature
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Very Scarce
The second volume of this very scarce work on butterflies, sphinxes and moths by Captain Thomas Brown, with thirty-five of the ninety-six total engravings across two volumes (sixty-one to ninety-six).
With thirty-five hand-coloured, full-page engravings of different butterflies, sphinxes and moths (plates ninety-two and ninety-three inserted out of order). Collated, complete.
Also with a monochrome portrait frontispiece of two cherubs captioned with a quotation from James Thomson's 'Spring' (from 'The Four Seasons'): 'What is the world to them, its pomp, its pleasure, and its nonsense all?'
Condition
In green cloth binding with a paper spine label. Externally, generally smart with fading to spine label and handling marks to boards. Bumping to spine head and tail resulting in slight loss of cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean but age toned and the odd spot, heavier to the first and last few pages.
Very Good
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