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Morris, F.O. - A History of British Butterflies

Title: A History of British Butterflies
Description: George Bell & Sons 1870 viii, 159, 24, 72 col + 2 plain plates. . HB. Roy. 8vo, cont. full red calf, rubbed/minor wear, raised bands to spine, gilt tooling to compartments, black leather title piece, marbled edges and endpapers, gt crest to boards. A few contemporary ink annotations to text; minor scattered foxing. Vg.. 5th edition. Francis Orpen Morris (1810-1893) was a Church of England clergyman and naturalist. The present book was the standard butterfly book of the second half of the 19th-centruy, and today is considered a lepidopterological classic. Text and plates printed by Benjamin Fawcett. McLean 15..

Keywords: ABABOOKFAIR 2019; Britain; Butterflies; Rhopalocera; Lepidoptera; Coloured Plates

Price: GBP 275.00 = appr. US$ 392.70 Seller: Pemberley Natural History Books
- Book number: A38121

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