GRAY, George Robert (1808-1872)
Descriptions and Figures of some new lepidopterous insects, chiefly from Nepal. London: E. Newman for Longman, Brown, Green & Longman, 1846.
Rare publication; the plates for this work were prepared in 1833 from drawings in the collection of Major-General Thomas Hardwicke (1755-1835). The work itself was intended to be the first part of a larger work with sections on the ornithology of China, the spiders of Nepal, the fungi of Nepal, etc. - only the present work was ever published. BM(NH) II, p.711 (calling for 15 plates); Horn-Schenkling 8390; Nissen ZBI 1685 (15 plates).
Octavo (216 x 131mm). 16 plates, 14 hand-coloured engraved plates by Waterhouse Hawkins 10 after Hayes, 2 uncoloured lithographs (light offsetting of plate 1 onto letterpress leaf, the lithographic plates spotted.) 19th-century red roan-backed green marbled paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt (spine chipped at head and foot and beginning to split). Provenance: T. J Dillon (bookplate).
GRAY, George Robert (1808-1872)
Descriptions and Figures of some new lepidopterous insects, chiefly from Nepal. London: E. Newman for Longman, Brown, Green & Longman, 1846.
Rare publication; the plates for this work were prepared in 1833 from drawings in the collection of Major-General Thomas Hardwicke (1755-1835). The work itself was intended to be the first part of a larger work with sections on the ornithology of China, the spiders of Nepal, the fungi of Nepal, etc. - only the present work was ever published. BM(NH) II, p.711 (calling for 15 plates); Horn-Schenkling 8390; Nissen ZBI 1685 (15 plates).
Octavo (216 x 131mm). 16 plates, 14 hand-coloured engraved plates by Waterhouse Hawkins 10 after Hayes, 2 uncoloured lithographs (light offsetting of plate 1 onto letterpress leaf, the lithographic plates spotted.) 19th-century red roan-backed green marbled paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt (spine chipped at head and foot and beginning to split). Provenance: T. J Dillon (bookplate).
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