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London: John Van Voorst, 1857. Pages clean and bright, previous owner inscription on front pastedown dated 1868, bookplates on front pastedown, front and reverse of front endpaper, binding firm, light rubbing and chipping to boards. . Hard. Good. 8vo.

London: John Van Voorst, 1857-59. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcovers, matching maroon cloth covers with embossed design, gilt lettering on spine. Vol. I. Comprising the butterflies and stout-bodied moths. 338 pages. Vol. II. Comprising the slender-bodied and small moths. 480 pages. Small b&w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers, signed on title page. Record # 383419

London: Van Voorst, 1857-1859. xii, 338; xii, 480, text engravings. . HB. 2 vols bound in one, 12mo, cont. half calf, marbled boards, endpapers and edges, rubbed and scuffed; a few small paint marks to rear board. Small blind stamp and erased ink stamp to title pages of both vols. Good.. First edition. Vol. I: Butterflies & Stout-bodied Moths; Vol II: Slender-bodied & Small Moths..

Van Voorst. -, 18571859. 1st. Ed.. Two volume set with b/w. illus. throughout. Small 8vo. Hardbacks. Some neat, early and informed annotations to text, with some illus. hand-coloured. Contents in nr. fine condition. Contemporary half calf leather over marbled boards in good to vg. condition showing some rubbing and minor shelf wear. A very useable set. Henry Tibbats Stainton (1822-1892) was editor of The Entomologist�s Annual and the Entomologist�s Weekly Intelligencer. Quite remarkably, in 1937, P.B.M Allan said of Stainton�s �A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths� that it was indispensible (Salmon).

London, John van Voorst, 1857-1859. Two volumes in two. 8vo (17.7 x 10.5 cm). xii, [v; on five leaves], 2, 338; II(1859): xi 480 pp., [xviii; on 18 leaves], numerous woodcuts. Uniform contemporary half calf over marbled boards, blind-tooled spine with five raised, gilt-bordered and stippled bands, red morocco label with gilt title. = An interleaved copy with additional watercolours and numerous notes also in the text itself. Somewhere it states: "S. denotes that the insect has been taken at Southgate"; "O. denotes... at Oakley, Tubney or neighbourhood", and numerous species are marked as such. The findings are dated (to the month and day) between 1857 and 1875. One loose sheet inserted (dated 1875). One woodcut has been coloured and 25 original hand-coloured drawings mounted on interleaved sections, especially in volume 2. In the second volume it states: "List of moths sent by me to Francis Walker of Highgate, of Wanstead, named by him". The first volume is inscribed:… Read More