| Description | 1774, folio, 2 pp foreword, 34 pp, 2pp index, engraved title-page with coloured cartouche, 33 highly artistic and finely hand-coloured copperplate engravings depicting butterflies, moths and other insects with flowers, fruits and plants, bound in modern quarter mottled calf with new end-papers, edges of title-page and foreword strengthened, plates in good clean state, published in Amsterdam. The style of the artist's composition is not dissimilar to the plates of Moses Harris's Aurelian. |
