The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects :. (insect, myriapoda, arachnida, and crustacean); being an adaptation for English readers of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insectes;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others.
Peter Martin Duncan (1821-1891)
Category
Books
Date
Unknown
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Castle Drogo, Devon
NT 3233764
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, [2], 480 p., [40] leaves of plates :. ill. ;. 8vo. Provenance: Purchased from A. Drewe. Armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Sebastian Bazley [i.e. Sir Thomas Sebastian Bazley, 2nd Baronet (1829–1919)] on upper pastedown. Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's illustrated blue cloth case binding with gilt lettering on upper cover and spine, gilt edges, bevelled boards and brown endpapers.
Makers and roles
Peter Martin Duncan (1821-1891), author Charles Emile Blanchard (1819 - 1900) , author