A decade of curious insects : some of them not describ'd before, shewn in their natural size, and as they appear enlarg'd before the Lucernal microscope, in which the solar apparatus is artificially illuminated : With their history, characters, manners, a
"Ladies who may chuse to paint these insects themselves may have sets of the cuts on royal paper printed pale for that purpose"--Verso of t.p Includes index Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration BM (NH) Horn & Schenkling. Index litt. entomologiae extracted picklist SCNHRB copy 39088002785152 has stamps: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Jun. 29, 1916; accession no.: 236268. With ms. pencil note on t.p.: Purchased H.S. Barber. There are brief ms. ink annotations on some pages SCNHRB copy has a modern blue and white paste-paper binding with blue morocco leather along the top and bottom edges, a gilt-tooled blue leather spine label, and light green endpapers. Some of the leaves have been repaired with tissue paper
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