29th Nov, 2023 10:00
Harris (Moses)
The Aurelian: or Natural History of English Insects; namely, Moths and Butterflies,
first edition, first issue, plate 2 and B2 (only) in the smaller sheet size of the originally issued fascicules, engraved frontispiece of the author, title with engraved vignette, 41 hand-coloured plates, plate 17 in the first state, plate 35 in the second state, 47 leaves of text, pagination errors corrected in ink, some offsetting throughout, staining along bottom and (to a lesser extent) top margin throughout, plate 25 with spotting, two text leaves with short tear in margin, [Lisney 229], cancelled bookplate of John Liptrap to front pastedown, contemporary diced calf, worn, rebacked preserving original spine label, near-contemporary paper price label to upper board, folio, for the author, 1766.
***‘One of the most outstanding authors of entomological literature during the eighteenth century’ - Lisney, p. 157.
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