Lepidoptera Britannica [Part 1]

Description:

Very rare. Part 1 (of 4). This first volume includes the butterflies (Papilio, Sphinx, Zygaena, Bombyx). Important early work on British Lepidoptera, in which Haworth provides systematic descriptions of the species then known in Britain. Haworth was the keeper of the insect collection of the third Aurelian Society of 1801 and the dedication in this volume is to, '..the gentlemen of the Aurelian Society, who have given up with unexampled zeal, from their respective collections, to the Aurelian Cabinet, every British insect which that did not possess…'

[Horn-Schenkling 9908].

Condition

Rebound in recent full leather, leather title-pieces to spine, new end-papers. Some scattered foxing. Old library stamp to title-page. Book-plate of Thomas Charles Morgan M.D. Coll. Reg. Med. Lond. Socius. Some marginal ink markings. Vg.