Author: Barrett, C.G.
Title: The Lepidoptera of the British Islands. A descriptive account of the families, genera, and species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, their preparatory states, habits and localities. Vol. 9. Heterocera. Geometrina-Pyralidina.
Description: 1904 454 pp., 48 (377-424) hand-coloured plates, large 8vo, publisher's brown cloth with gilt vignette on front board and gilt title on spine. Part of a massive work published in an illustrated (large 8vo) and a non-illustrated (8vo) edition. This is a complete part of the large paper edition with hand-coloured illustrations, in a fine state. Both versions are rare. This part deals with several families, including the Larentidae, Pyraustidae and Pyralidae. A few light pencil annotations in the text, plates clean. A very good copy of one of the rarer parts of the series. Nissen ZBI, 236.

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