Lisney Arthur (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 6 pages. (SL#129).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hard cover in very good condition. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards have gilt image to front board, gilt book details to spine and the pageblock head is dyed a complentary hue, (faded). Light shelf and handling wear only, including minor wear to board edges, tanning to pageblock. Within, pages are tightly bound, content is unmarked. CN.

London, Chiswick Press, 1960. XVIII, 315 S. MIt 40 s/w Abb. (Portr. u. Faksimiles) auf Tafeln. Gr.-8vo (25 cm). OLn. Bibilographie zu 419 Werken von 40 britischen Naturforschern des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Jeder Autor wird mit einer kurzen Biographie und einem allgemeinen biobiographischen Kommentar zu seinen Publikationen vorgestellt, gefolgt von einer ausführlichen Beschreibung aller greifbaren Ausgaben seiner Werke mit Bezug zur britischen Lepidopterologie.- Schnitt sowie erste u. letzte Bl. minimal stockfleckig. Gutes Exemplar.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Edward Topselll 1572-1625) starts the book - an early and vague attempt at categorising other living creatures brought together under the title of An History of Serpents. And so it starts, a gradual opening up of interest, so very slowly, till we reach Moses Harris and Arthur Aikin (1773 - 1854) by which time a clear distinction had been made, luckily, between birds, fish and mammals to butterflies and moths. The earlier attempts seem to have been directed to children, perhaps because of their relevant size.Handsome pictures of many of these gentlemen and occasionally ladies are provided. I found it all immensely interesting! There follows a.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Fine copy in original cloth, was issued without dustjacket, pp. 315.

cloth. large 8vo. cloth. (iv), xviii, 315 pages. With a list of illustrations, an introduction, a list of references, index of collated copies, an alphabetical index of booksellers, printers, and publishers, as well as a general index. Contains 40 black-and-white plates. With 419 entries. With a bibliographical excerpt from Bernard Quaritch's Catalogue 1052 laid-in. Minor wear, top of front cover and spine slightly faded. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. LISNEY, Arthur A. A Bibliography of British Lepidoptera 1608-1799 London, The Chiswick Press, 1960. 8vo. xviii, 315 pp., with 40 illustrations, including frontispiece plate. Green buckram gilt. A fine copy.

1ST EDITION. A FINE COPY IN GREEN BOARDS. BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS.