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HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel (1810-79) & John Obadiah WESTWOOD (1805-93). British Butterflies and Their Transformations . London: William Smith 1841. 4° (270 x 212mm). Half-title, hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, and 42 hand-coloured plates. (Some generally light spotting, heavier to frontispiece and a few plates.) Late 19th-century green morocco gilt by F. Bedford, spine directly lettered and ornately tooled, gilt edges (spine faded to brown, slight sunfading of lower cover). Provenance: Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th Baronet (1829-1900; bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Nissen ZBI 2049
HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel (1810-79) & John Obadiah WESTWOOD (1805-93). British Butterflies and Their Transformations . London: William Smith 1841. 4° (270 x 212mm). Half-title, hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, and 42 hand-coloured plates. (Some generally light spotting, heavier to frontispiece and a few plates.) Late 19th-century green morocco gilt by F. Bedford, spine directly lettered and ornately tooled, gilt edges (spine faded to brown, slight sunfading of lower cover). Provenance: Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th Baronet (1829-1900; bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Nissen ZBI 2049 HUMPHREYS, H.N. & J.O. WESTWOOD. British Moths and Their Transformations. London: William Smith 1843-45. 2 volumes, 4° (268 x 207mm). 124 coloured lithographic plates. (Some spotting, heavier to a few plates.) Green morocco gilt by F. Bedford, uniformly bound with the volume above (spines faded, remnants of paper label on spine and front cover of vol. 1). Provenance: Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th Baronet (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Nissen ZBI 2050.