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Salmon, M.A.; Edwards, P.J. - The Aurelian's Fireside Companion:  An Entomological Anthology

Title: The Aurelian's Fireside Companion: An Entomological Anthology
Description: Paphia 2005 xxvii, 428, 8 colour plates, 138 b/w photos. 283x215mm. HB. NEW. . Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. Over 145 articles, letters and notes that look back to the Great Cornhill Fire of 1748 - a disaster which almost destroyed the Aurelians and their fledgling Society - and then forward to the Victorian era and the early 20th Century. This anthology includes some of the more extraordinary and entertaining contributions to the British entomological literature of the past 250 years. Among the authors included are: Charles Dickens, J.W. Tutt, P.B.M. Allan, Margaret Fountaine, F.W. Frohawk, Baron C.G.M. de Worms, A. Maitland Emmet, Charles G. Barrett, Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge. [9780953723614]

Keywords: 12340; Entomology; History of Natural History

Price: GBP 45.00 = appr. US$ 64.26 Seller: Pemberley Natural History Books
- Book number: N8951

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