LOT 3078
4th December 2024
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LOT 3078
HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel and John Obadiah WESTWOOD. British Moths and Their Transformations. London: William Smith, 1843-1845. 2 vols., first edition, 4to (268 x 207mm.) Titles, 124 hand-coloured lithographed plates, tissue-guards. (Lacking half-titles, scattered spotting, mostly marginal, some dust-soiling.) Contemporary brown full morocco, gilt decoration to covers, g.e. (extremities rubbed, dust-soiled). – And a further volume by H.N. Humphreys and J.O. Westwood (‘British Butterflies and Their Transformations’, [42 plates], 1841, 4to). Provenance: by descent from the estate of Frederic Thesiger, Lieutenant General, Viceroy and Governor-General of India 1916-21 (3).
Estimate: £200 – £300
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