One hundred and twenty copper-plates of English moths and butterflies, 1773

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Lot 101 | One hundred and twenty copper-plates of English moths and butterflies, 1773
One hundred and twenty copper-plates of English moths and butterflies. London: Benjamin White, 1773 [plates on later paper, some watermarked 1814 or 1815]

4to (301 x 252 mm.), 119 hand-coloured engraved plates (of 120, lacking plate 122), contemporary straight-grained red morocco gilt, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, plates CVI, CVII, and CXI shaved at upper margin, repairs to plate CXVI, plate CXX frayed at outer margin, splitting at final gathering
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