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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. Vg in d/w. From the library of British coleopterist, Robert Angus, with his small ownership label to half-title.. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies (this copy no. 677). Illustrated by Tim Bernhard. 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. This book is a sequel to The Aurelian Legacy.. [9780953723614]

Keywords: Britain; Butterflies; Rhopalocera; Lepidoptera; History of Natural History

Price: GBP 35.00 = appr. US$ 49.98 Seller: Pemberley Natural History Books
- Book number: S55054

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