Butterfly-Hunting in Many Lands: Notes of a Field Naturalist
- Publisher : Longmans, Green & Co
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : col frontis, 6 chromolithographic plates, 9 plain plates
Description:
1st edition. Appendix includes translations of a series of papers by Fritz Müller on the scent-organs of butterflies and moths, with a note by E.B. Poulton. The preface explains that this work aimed ‘to put into readable form the technical diaries of a wandering entomologist’. The work includes chapters on George Blundell Longstaff’s (1849-1921) lepidoptera collecting activities around the world including; India and Ceylon, 1903-4; China, Japan, Canada, 1904; Algeria, 1905; South Africa, 1905; West Indies and South America, 1906-7; Ceylon, 1908; Egypt and the Sudan, 1909; New Zealand and Australia, 1910. Includes 6 chromolithographic plates by Horace Knight and his son Edgar S. Knight.
Condition
8vo, orig. cloth, gt, teg, two small nicks to head of spine; some marks to spine; edges spotted; occasional foxing, particularly to prelims and last few pages. Previous owner's name to endpaper. Vg. Signed by author.
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