Butterflies & Moths.- Wilkes (Benjamin) Bowles's New Collection of English Moths and Butterflies, second edition, engraved throughout comprising title with hand-coloured pictorial border of caterpillars and 12 hand-coloured plates, trimmed to plate-mark at fore-edge, lightly browned, some spotting, later half red morocco, rubbed and a little stained, rebacked, corners worn, [Nissen ZBI 4411], folio, Carington Bowles [after 1764]. ⁂ Fine hand-coloured decorative plates with the butterflies and moths arranged symmetrically forming kaleidoscopic patterns.
Butterflies & Moths.- Wilkes (Benjamin) Bowles's New Collection of English Moths and Butterflies, second edition, engraved throughout comprising title with hand-coloured pictorial border of caterpillars and 12 hand-coloured plates, trimmed to plate-mark at fore-edge, lightly browned, some spotting, later half red morocco, rubbed and a little stained, rebacked, corners worn, [Nissen ZBI 4411], folio, Carington Bowles [after 1764]. ⁂ Fine hand-coloured decorative plates with the butterflies and moths arranged symmetrically forming kaleidoscopic patterns.
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