PRODROMUS ENTOMOLOGY. OR, A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE LEPIDOPTEROUS INSECTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Pp. [viii]+viii+56(last colophon), coloured frontispiece plus 36 plates with pink interleaves, 4 black & white text illustrations, marbled endpapers, appendix, publisher's slip tipped-in at acknowledgements section; impl. 4to; full brown leather, the spine ruled in gilt around raised bands, with gilt lettered red leather title label, boards with decorative gilt border, the spine slightly faded; all edges gilt; ribbon marker; within brown leather slipcase; Edition Renard, Melbourne, 2007. Special edition, being one of 30 large paper copies, with two sets of the coloured plates (reproducing the colouring of both the extremely rare 1805 edition and the second edition of 1822), together with hand-tinted pink interleaves and marbled endpapers, bound in the style of an original copy of the 1805 edition. *First published in 1805, with a second edition in 1822, John William Lewin's Prodromus Entomology . . . was the first Australian natural history book illustrated with plates produced in Australia from original observation. The coloured plates include 14 insect species first depicted and described by Lewin.…