Sold for:
$5,228
$5,228
Harris, Moses (1730-c. 1788) The Aurelian a Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies. London: Henry Bohn, 1840. Folio, illustrated with engraved and colored frontispiece, added engraved title, an unnumbered colored plate of the anatomical parts of a butterfly or moth, and forty-four numbered engravings, all hand-colored and many heightened with gum arabic, bound in half green morocco, spine tooled in gilt with butterflies in the compartments, marbled paper boards, a.e.g.; rubbed, 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-11-16
