Index Entomologicus: or, a Complete Illustrated Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects of Great Britain
- Publisher : William Wood
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : 54 hand-coloured plates
Description:
Reissue of the first edition (1839). Scarce. The hand-coloured plates include 1950 figures of butterflies and moths.
Horn-Schenkling 24425; Nissen ZBI 4458.
Condition
8vo, later library half leather, rubbed, lightly scuffed to extremities, raised bands to spine, marbled endpapers. Occasional light spotting. Pp ix/x, List of Subscribers, chipped / torn to outer margin. Bound by a reference library, with their mark to spine; light surface damage to endpaper where bookplate has been removed; no other markings. Good clean copy.
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