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A History of British Butterflies
by Morris, F.O
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
London: George Bell & Sons, 1870. viii, 159, 24, 72 col + 2 plain plates. . HB. Roy. 8vo, cont. full red calf, rubbed/minor wear, raised bands to spine, gilt tooling to compartments, black leather title piece, marbled edges and endpapers, gt crest to boards. A few contemporary ink annotations to text; minor scattered foxing. Vg.. 5th edition. Francis Orpen Morris (1810-1893) was a Church of England clergyman and naturalist. The present book was the standard butterfly book of the second half of the 19th-centruy, and today is considered a lepidopterological classic. Text and plates printed by Benjamin Fawcett. McLean 15..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A38121
- Title
- A History of British Butterflies
- Author
- Morris, F.O
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Bell & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1870
- Keywords
- ABABOOKFAIR 2019; Britain; Butterflies; Rhopalocera; Lepidoptera; Coloured Plates
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Pemberley Books
Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- VG
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