A History of British Butterflies
by Morris, F.O
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
London: John C. Nimmo, 1891. viii, 159, 24, 2 plain + 72 hand-col plates. . HB. Roy. 8vo, rebound in recent half-leather, raised bands, gt tooling to spine compartments, leather title piece. Old, faint stain to fore-edge. Occasional marginal pencil annotations and foxing. Plates clean and bright. A very attractive copy. From the library of Michael Bryant, Hampshire ornithologist, with his bookplate.. Third edition. With attractive hand-coloured plates..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A48218
- Title
- A History of British Butterflies
- Author
- Morris, F.O
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John C. Nimmo
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1891
- Keywords
- Britain; Butterflies; Rhopalocera; Lepidoptera; Coloured Plates
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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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