MORRIS, Francis Orpen (1810-93). A History of British Butterflies. [etc.]

MORRIS, Francis Orpen (1810-93).  A History of British Butterflies. Eighth Edition, newly revised, corrected and enlarged. London: John C. Nimmo, 1895. Large 8vo (250 x 172mm). Title printed in red and black, 79 coloured wood-engraved plates, one double-page uncoloured plate (several plates detached or loose). Contemporary green half roan gilt (rubbed and scuffed, one signature starting). Provenance: “Robert Austen Bevan, from his Father and Mother, Xmas 1907” (inscription on front free endpaper). Cf. Nissen ZBI 2892. With c. 40 other miscellaneous books, most leather bound, including Mark Antony Lower’s A Compendious History of Sussex (London, 1870, 2 vols., contemporary half morocco) and W. B. Yeats’ Poems (London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1901, portrait, original blue elaborately decorated cloth gilt, [?]third edition). Please note that only a part of this lot is illustrated. The lot sold not subject to return. (qty)