THE GENERA INSECTORUM OF LINNAEUS: Exemplified by Various Specimens of English Insects Drawn from Nature by James Barbut

Barbut, James

Published by Jacques Dixwell and John Sewell, London, 1781

About this Item

(6), xvii, (3), 371, (20) pages. Complete with 20 hand-colored plates and 2 foldout black & white anatomical plates. Parallel text in both French and English. Both the printed French title page and the engraved English title page are present. All engravings were engraved by James Newton, from drawings by Barbut. James Barbut was an English artist and naturalist, who was an admirer of the work of Carl Linnaeus. The Natural History Museum, London holds 126 of the watercolors by Barbut that he painted for this book. The book is in about very good condition: the color engravings are clean and bright, with some minimal offsetting limited to the one folding plate; text pages are clean and supple, with minimal foxing, the spine leather is stripped, and boards are supported by the binding cords. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Seller Inventory # W2666

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE GENERA INSECTORUM OF LINNAEUS: Exemplified by Various Specimens of English Insects Drawn from Nature by James Barbut
• Publisher: Jacques Dixwell and John Sewell, London
• Publication Date: 1781
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: James Barbut and James Newton
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: About Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Natural History Prints
  • Illustrated Books
  • Natural History