An introduction to entomology; . or, Elements of the natural history of insects, comprising an account of noxious and useful insects, of their metamorphoses, food, stratagems, habitations, societies, motions, noises, hybernation, instinct, etc., etc. With plates. By William Kirby, ... and William Spence, ...
William Kirby FRS (1759-1850)
Category
Books
Date
1843
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3081161
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates (some col.) . ill.. . 8vo.. Some pages unopened.. Provenance: Crest bookplate: "William Gibbs.", with motto "En Dios Mi Amparo y Esperanza." [i.e. William Gibbs (1790-1875)] in both over publishers advertisements... Binding: Nineteenth-century full green textured cloth; gold-tooled spine and beetle on left board; blind-tooled boards; brown endpapers with publishers advertisements on pastedowns; white diamond binders ticket on back pastedown of vol. I: " Bound by Westleys & Co. London.".
Makers and roles
William Kirby FRS (1759-1850) William Spence (1783-1860)