Lot 2058 , Kirby, W.F. - European Butterflies and Moths ... bound as 2 vols. 62 plates (61 coloured); contemp. half calf and cloth, 4to. 1882; sold with Culpeper, Nicholas - The Complete Herbal ... to which are now first annexed, t

° Kirby, W.F. - European Butterflies and Moths ... bound as 2 vols. 62 plates (61 coloured); contemp. half calf and cloth, 4to. 1882; sold with Culpeper, Nicholas - The Complete Herbal ... to which are now first annexed, the English Physician, and Key to Physic ... new edition, with a list of the principal diseases ... portrait frontis and 20 hand coloured plates; contemp. half calf and marbled boards, newly rebacked with gilt decorated panelled spine and red label, 4to. Virtue and Co., (ca.1835) (3)
£100-140

Condition:
Kirby - title spotted overall and some other in text, plts. toned in margins but mostly clean, spines worn and torn. xvi, lvi, 192 and 193-427pp.; Culpeper - frontis damaged - port. complete but engr. of his house beneath has part of (and some decoration above) torn away; title stained and some other browning etc., e/ps. replaced, d. col. printing

Sold for £140