Woodhouse (Lionel George Ollyet, & George Morrison Reid Henry). The Butterfly Fauna of Ceylon, 1st edition, Colombo: Ceylon Government press, 1942, 52 plates (mainly in colour), plates 22 and 27 loose, a few other plates starting, original card wrappers, slightly marked, small chip to foot of spine, small section of separation along front joint, 4to, together with: ibid., The Butterfly Fauna of Ceylon, 2nd ('complete') edition, Colombo: The Colombo Apothecaries' Co., Ltd., 1949, 57 plates including frontispiece and map (plates 37-55 printed on 10 sheets), bookplate of noted lepidopterist Graham Howarth (1918-2015), dust jacket (a few nicks and closed tears), a bright copy, 4to, Westwood (John Obadiah), The Butterflies of Great Britain with their Transformations Delineated and Described, 2nd edition, William and Robert Chambers 1860, hand-coloured lithographic title-page, 21 lithographic plates (all but 2 hand-coloured), original red pictorial cloth gilt, recased, slightly rubbed and worn, 8vo, Coleman (William Stephen), British Butterflies. Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species, 1st edition, Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1860, 16 wood-engraved plates (14 printed in colours), 32 pp. advertisements to rear, original red pebble-grain cloth, spine faded, small 8vo, Kappel (August Wilhelm, & William Egmont Kirby), British and European Butterflies and Moths (Macrolepidoptera), 1st edition, Ernest Nister, [1896], 30 colour plates, a few spotted, top edge gilt, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, a little rubbed and faded, some minor wear to extremities, 4to, Ford (Edmund Brisco), Butterflies, 1st edition, Collins, 1945, photographic colour plates, original cloth, spine slightly faded, dust jacket (spine toned and slightly chipped), 8vo, and 20 others, illustrated lepidopterology books, 19th and 20th-century, original cloth, some with dust jackets, mainly 8vo (Qty: 28) Nissen ZBI 4461 (Woodhouse & Henry, both editions), 4377 (Westwood), 923 (Coleman), 2153 (Kappel & Kirby). Ford's work was the first title in the New Naturalist series.
Woodhouse (Lionel George Ollyet, & George Morrison Reid Henry). The Butterfly Fauna of Ceylon, 1st edition, Colombo: Ceylon Government press, 1942, 52 plates (mainly in colour), plates 22 and 27 loose, a few other plates starting, original card wrappers, slightly marked, small chip to foot of spine, small section of separation along front joint, 4to, together with: ibid., The Butterfly Fauna of Ceylon, 2nd ('complete') edition, Colombo: The Colombo Apothecaries' Co., Ltd., 1949, 57 plates including frontispiece and map (plates 37-55 printed on 10 sheets), bookplate of noted lepidopterist Graham Howarth (1918-2015), dust jacket (a few nicks and closed tears), a bright copy, 4to, Westwood (John Obadiah), The Butterflies of Great Britain with their Transformations Delineated and Described, 2nd edition, William and Robert Chambers 1860, hand-coloured lithographic title-page, 21 lithographic plates (all but 2 hand-coloured), original red pictorial cloth gilt, recased, slightly rubbed and worn, 8vo, Coleman (William Stephen), British Butterflies. Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species, 1st edition, Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1860, 16 wood-engraved plates (14 printed in colours), 32 pp. advertisements to rear, original red pebble-grain cloth, spine faded, small 8vo, Kappel (August Wilhelm, & William Egmont Kirby), British and European Butterflies and Moths (Macrolepidoptera), 1st edition, Ernest Nister, [1896], 30 colour plates, a few spotted, top edge gilt, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, a little rubbed and faded, some minor wear to extremities, 4to, Ford (Edmund Brisco), Butterflies, 1st edition, Collins, 1945, photographic colour plates, original cloth, spine slightly faded, dust jacket (spine toned and slightly chipped), 8vo, and 20 others, illustrated lepidopterology books, 19th and 20th-century, original cloth, some with dust jackets, mainly 8vo (Qty: 28) Nissen ZBI 4461 (Woodhouse & Henry, both editions), 4377 (Westwood), 923 (Coleman), 2153 (Kappel & Kirby). Ford's work was the first title in the New Naturalist series.
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