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1887 Butterflies of Great Britain Westwood Color Illust

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1887 Butterflies of Great Britain Westwood Color Illust

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1887 Butterflies of Great Britain Westwood Color Illustrated Insects SCIENCE

A rare 1887 edition of J.O. Westwood’s ‘Butterflies of Great Britain.’ This book of entomology focuses primarily on types and species of various winged insects, Lepidoptera, and apilionidae. Westwood was a prolific 19th-century entomologist known for his studies on various types of insects. This particular work is highly desirable, not only for its contents, but also for the numerous full-page lithograph engravings.

Item number: #4404

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WESTWOOD, John Obadiah

The butterflies of Great Britain : with their transformations delineated and described

London : George Routledge, 1887.

Details:

•Collation complete with all pages:

oxl, 140

o22 plates

•References: Freeman 3950

•Language: English

•Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure

•Size: ~9.5in X 7in (24cm x 18cm)

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