(INSECTS) Johnson Theophilus Illustrations of British Hawk M

Sale 1974 - Lot 377

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WITH THIRTY-SIX ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS (INSECTS.) Johnson, Theophilus. Illustrations of British Hawk Moths and their Larvae. 36 beautiful and skilled watercolor illustrations. 8vo, contemporary cloth, covers and preliminaries dampstained along the top edge; plates unaffected. London, 1874 [i.e.1876]

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Unusual production in that all of the illustrations are original watercolors, and of a very high order. Nissen, Zoology 2110; Freeman 1996.