List of the Specimens of British Animals in the Collection of the British Museum. Pt V: Lepidoptera

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With Introduction by John Edward Gray. 'The principal object of the present Catalogue has been to give a complete list of all the larger Lepidopterous Insects that have been recorded as found in Great Britain, indicating at the same time those species that are contained in the Collection.' - Preface.

Horn-Schenkling 21409

Condition

12mo, cont. cont. half calf, marbled boards, some wear to extremities. Recased with new endpapers. Some mostly marginal browning/spotting to pages. Good. Interleaved copy. From the library of O. Pickard-Cambridge (1828-1917), with numerous neat ms notes in his hand, including on the occurrence of species in Bloxworth, Dorset. Pickard Cambridge was an English zoologist and clergyman, who published on British spiders, including The Spiders of Dorset (1879-1881). He was born in Bloxworth, Dorset, and succeeded his father as rector there in 1868. Also with book plates of British lepidopterists J.M. Chalmers Hunt and Paul Sokoloff.