The Butterflies and Moths of Europe
by Kirby, W.F
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Cassell, 1907. lxxii, 432, 1 plain and 54 col plates, text figs. . HB. 4to, cont. half leather, lightly rubbed, raised bands, gt tooling to bands, leather title piece. Lacks caption leaf to one plate, and two further caption leaves have some surface damage due to adhesion (but not affecting the plates themselves). Endpaper creased. Very good.. First published 1903. Attractive decorative chromolithographed plates illustrating all life stages and foodplants. Includes species found in Madeira and the Canary Islands. Kirby was expressed his concerns about the conservation of butterflies, stating in the Preface I wish to impress upon my readers that collecting is a means to an end, and it should never be practised wantonly, or as a mere amusement. It is a great pity to destroy more specimens than are actually required for study; and although many insects may become rare, or may be actually exterminated by natural causes, yet it is to be feared that in some cases the attacks of collectors have been responsible for the increasing rarity of various species (especially butterflies) which were not uncommon in England in former years..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A51331
- Title
- The Butterflies and Moths of Europe
- Author
- Kirby, W.F
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1907
- Keywords
- Butterflies; Moths; Lepidoptera; Europe
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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