DONOVAN, Edward (1768-1837). An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India, and the islands in the Indian Seas. London: T.Bensley for the Author, 1798[-99]. 4 o (291 x 226 mm). 50 fine hand-colored engraved plates, a few heightened in gilt, some with gum arabic (some occasional pale offsetting and spotting, lacks errata leaf). Contemporary tan straight-grained morocco gilt (some light rubbing). Provenance : Robert Hudson (bookplate); T.H.T. Hopkins, Magdalen College, Oxford (inkstamp on Hudson's bookplate). FIRST EDITION. The fine plates are drawn largely from specimens in Donovan's own collection. Donovan considered this work to be the second volume of what he calls his General Illustration of Entomology . The companion works are therefore An Epitome...of the Insects of India (1800-04) and An Epitome... of the Insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite (1805). Nissen ZBI 1143.
DONOVAN, Edward (1768-1837). An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India, and the islands in the Indian Seas. London: T.Bensley for the Author, 1798[-99]. 4 o (291 x 226 mm). 50 fine hand-colored engraved plates, a few heightened in gilt, some with gum arabic (some occasional pale offsetting and spotting, lacks errata leaf). Contemporary tan straight-grained morocco gilt (some light rubbing). Provenance : Robert Hudson (bookplate); T.H.T. Hopkins, Magdalen College, Oxford (inkstamp on Hudson's bookplate). FIRST EDITION. The fine plates are drawn largely from specimens in Donovan's own collection. Donovan considered this work to be the second volume of what he calls his General Illustration of Entomology . The companion works are therefore An Epitome...of the Insects of India (1800-04) and An Epitome... of the Insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite (1805). Nissen ZBI 1143.
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