British Insects, a familiar description of the form, structure, habits and transformations of insects

E F Staveley

Verlag: L Reeve & Co., LONDON, 1871

Beschreibung

This is part of Lovell Reeve's crown octavo series of popular natural history for beginners and amateurs. The preface starts 'this little work is planned on the supposition that the reader knows nothing scientifically of the insect world.'. So the book gives some basics and then gets on to helping the reader identify the range of insects they might encounter. It is in the original blue decorative cloth binding with a gilt picture to the front board and gilt titles on the spine. The book has had a good cloth case repair - relaying the spine so the binding is sound and tight if slightly grubby and faded/darkened on the spine. The endpapers are new. It has 16 coloured plates as called for and numerous illustrations in the text. There is some brown spotting on the text but this does not generally affect the plates which are bright and clear. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 030635

Bibliografische Details

Titel: British Insects, a familiar description of ...

Verlag: L Reeve & Co., LONDON

Erscheinungsdatum: 1871

Einband: Decorative Cloth

Illustrator: EWR

Zustand: Good

Auflage: 1st Edition