PRODROMUS ENTOMOLOGY. OR, A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE LEPIDOPTEROUS INSECTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES.
Pp. [viii]+viii+56(last colophon, coloured frontispiece plus 18 plates, 4 black & white text illustrations, appendix, publisher's slip tipped-in at acknowledgements section; post 4to; half leather, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, plain papered boards with printed paper title label on upper board; ribbon marker; Edition Renard, Melbourne, 2007. Limited edition, being one of 100 copies thus bound (reproducing the first known publisher's binding of the second 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. Item #166318
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