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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).
A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths - Vols 1&2 by H.T.Stainton - 1857
by H.T.Stainton
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A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths - Vols 1&2
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London: John Van Voorst, 1857. Volume One - xii, 338+2, Comprising the Butterflies and Stout Bodied Moths. Volume Two - 1859. xi, 480pp. Comprising the slender bodied and small moths. Some informed marginalia to volome one. Spine head to volume two rubbed with some loss. Wood engraved figures throughout.. Publishers Blind Stamped Cloth. Good. 190x115mm.
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- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1857
- Keywords Entomology
- Size 190x115mm
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