Auction No 368, Tag: Butterflies

2 Lots (displaying 1 - 2)

Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre "Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature",

Lot: 6

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £74
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Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, 1780s-1790s, disbound, the Robert Bernard engraved plates only, comprising Butterflies (28, with a few plates of moths) and Quadrupeds (32); one plate of moths dust-affected, a few others slightly marked o/w VG/fine. Margins intact. Uncut. Overall 13 x 9.5”. 

"Lloyd's Natural History" series comprising W.F. Kirby "A Hand- Book to the order Lepidoptera" in 5 volumes,

Lot: 12

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £52
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Lloyd’s Natural History series comprising W.F. Kirby A Hand-Book to the order Lepidoptera in 5 volumes, & Ogilvie-Grant Game Birds in 2 volumes, Edward Lloyd 1896-97, octavo, uniform gilt cloth, VG, with 156 and 48 tissue-guarded colour plates respectively. Some minor browning to tissue guards and elsewhere but the plates largely unaffected. (7)