british moths transformations de humphreys h n westwood j o (18 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : New. Print on Demand. This book is a profound analysis of the evolution and complexity of a specific subject, exploring its history, context, and contemporary significance. The author delves into the subject's origins, tracing its development through different epochs and cultures. By examining the subject's multifaceted nature, the book provides a comprehensive understanding of its impact on human thought and society. The author offers insightful perspectives on the subject's enduring relevance, highlighting its potential to shape future understanding and progress. This book is an essential read for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of this captivating subject and its enduring influence on the human experience. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Arranged and illustrated in a series of plates by H.N. Humphreys Esq. with characters and descriptions by J.O. Westwood Esq., F.L.S. British Butterflies volume dated 1849, with hand coloured and decorative half-title and 42 hand coloured plates, pp.xii + 137 + index. British Moths in two volumes dated 1851 with 124 hand coloured plates, pp.xiv + 258 and pp.xix + 268. Both early editions, uniformly bound in contemporary burgundy half morocco with dark green cloth, raised bands, gilt, marbled endpapers.The Plates in all volumes are free from foxing, there are just minor marks to some of the endpapers not affecting the text. The bindings are in very good condition with only minimal wear. A very good set. Additional shipping will apply because of the weight. 4to.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4to hardcover volume in green cloth with a leather spine. Spine and boards intact with some rubbing. End papers not split 1 early bookplate. Contains 60 of 67 plates. Missing 7 plates. Contents very clean with almost no foxing a little on some tissue guards.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4to hardcover volume in green full leather gold embossed binding. Binding intact and quite nice with very minor edge wear. End papers not split with one bookplate. Small note at top of title about a gift. 67 plates in very good condition with some minor scattered foxing.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Hardback, 2 volume set. 4to. New and revised ed. 218mm x 276mm. 2 vols. 124 hand-coloured litho plates, contemporary printer's cloth with gilt lettering. Cloth faded, fore corners rubbed, Spines relaid, some darkening of paper, a few marginal notes in pencil, sporadic foxing. Plates generally clean and bright with a very few slightly affected by light foxing. A heavy set, additional postage will apply for delivery outside the UK. (a13).

Due volumi di cm. 29, pp. xiv, 258; xix (1) 268. Con 124 belle tavole f.t. in fine coloritura coeva. Legatura originale in piena tela con decorazioni e titoli in oro ed a secco. Esemplare pulito e genuino, in ottimo stato di conservazione.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Book plate inside front cover. 124 hand-coloured plates. half leather, much wear to upper/lower spine. Carefully wrapped on a protective acetate cover to prevent further damage.

second edition),two volumes, 258 pp.,124 hand-coloured plates. Handsome half red morocco, all edges gilt, some wear, a very good copy.

Two volume set with 124 hand-coloured lithograph plates. 4to. Hardback. AEG. With two bookplates to front pastedowns and ownership stamp of later owner to ffeps. Occ. quite minor spotting and minor marks to contents o/w. contents fine. Some tissue guards removed. Very charming early full morocco leather binding with very attractive gilt floral decoration to spines and boards. Author of the excellent book on the great butterfly collectors, 'The Aurelian Legacy', Michael Salmon believes Henry Noel Humphreys was equal in talent to one of the finest insect illustrators of the 19th Century, John Curtis. High praise indeed. Coupled with the prodigously talented John Obadiah Westwood, it is no wonder that this work is thought of so highly.

Three volumes with 166 hand-coloured lithograph plates and additional hand-coloured title to Butterfly volume as published. 4to. Hardback. All edges marbled. With period signature of Isobel Borred to each half-title. Occ. light spotting, a little heavier at ends and to Vol. II of Moths, o/w. contents in fine condition. Handsomely bound in later black half calf over marbled boards, with gilt lettering and decoration, lightly rubbed to boards, a few minor white marks o/w. fine. A pleasing opportunity to obtain a matching set of this sought after work. Author of the excellent book on the great butterfly collectors, 'The Aurelian Legacy', Michael Salmon believes Henry Noel Humphreys was equal in talent to one of the finest insect illustrators of the 19th Century, John Curtis. High praise indeed. Coupled with the prodigously talented John Obadiah Westwood, it is no wonder that this work is thought of so highly.

Leather. Etat : Very Good. H. N. Humphreys (illustrateur). Beautifully illustrated with bright hand coloured lithographs, this is a pleasing copy of H. N. Humphreys and J. O. Westwood's exhaustive study of the British moth. The 1854 new and revised two volume edition of H. N. Humphreys and J. O. Westwood's impressive illustrated study of the British moth, in smart full morocco bindings.Illustrated with one-hundred and twenty-four vibrant full page hand coloured lithograph plates from illustrator, naturalist and entomologist Henry Noel Humphreys. Collated, complete.With descriptive passages of the moths encountered provided by entomologist and archaeologist John Obadiah Westwood, a staunchly anti-Darwinian natural theologian.With the illustrated bookplate of Car Jac Longman to each front pastedown. Retaining the original half titles.A beautifully illustrated and impressively detailed mid nineteenth century lepidopterological study. In full morocco bindings with gilt detailing. Rubbing to back strips, with losses of leather to joints and board perimeters. Front hinges starting, with boards holding firm. Illustrated bookplate to front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with scattered instances of light spotting. Very Good. book.

First edition; 2 vols, 4to; 124 hand-coloured plates, occasional mild spotting otherwise very good; contemporary half green calf, maroon lettering-pieces gilt, all edges marbled, mild dust-soiling and darkening commensurate with age, rubbed at extremities, bumper on corners but otherwise a very good set. Freeman, 2676.

Etat : Fine. xii, 138, (2); xiv, 258; xix, 268, additional hand-col title, 42 + 124 fine hand-col plates. . HB. 3 vols, large 4to, fine, uniform, cont. red half morocco, raised bands, gilt tooling to spine compartments, marbled boards, additional leather title labels to front boards, aeg; some rubbing. Largely clean, but with some foxing to one title page, occasional light foxing/spotting elsewhere; four plates of moths more heavily spotted. A fine, handsomely bound set. Small printed bookplates of British Lepidopterist, Arthur Naish, Brooklyn Lodge, Ashley Hill, Bristol. First editions, with superior colouring. A landmark in Victorian entomological illustration, this magnificent three-volume set represents the fruitful collaboration between Henry Noel Humphreys (18101879), the accomplished illustrator and naturalist, and John Obadiah Westwood (18051893), eminent entomologist and Professor of Zoology at Oxford.In the preface to the first volume, British Butterflies and their Transformations, Humphreys explains that while living in Italy he was inspired to collect and study "glittering butterflies." Later he found that he could only identify and arrange his collection of British butterflies in their various stages with reference to European publications. He wrote 'feeling thus the want of some popular work in which the transformations of British Lepidoptera were accurately described and developed, with accurate portraits of each insect in its three great stages, the caterpillar, the chrysalis, and the butterfly or moth, I planned the present work with the view of supplying the deficiency'. Inspired Humphreys commenced the task of producing 42 beautiful drawings, each depicting the life stages of butterflies, together with the foodplant of the caterpillars. Lithographs were then printed which were delicately hand coloured. Westwood produced the accompanying text for each plate, lending the work scientific precision to match its artistic merit. Dunbar (2010- British Butterflies) states that this work set 'a high, and arguably unequalled, standard in Victorian butterfly book illustration'.The collaboration between Humphreys and Westwood continued with the production of the subsequent two-volume work, British Moths and their Transformations, published in 1843 and 1845. This included 124 fine plates of moths. Due to the number of species, some plates illustrate over 20 specimens on each plate. Nissen ZBI 2049, 2050.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. 1843-1845. Two Volumes. Quarto's. Collated complete, 124 hand-coloured plates. xiv + 258 pp; xix + 268 pp. Contemporary tan calf, sympathetically re-cased, gilt ruled with titles to spine. Boards rubbed, with some scrapes and minor surface losses to extremities. All edges marbled with matching end papers. Occasional light marginal spotting. Otherwise contents in good order. Overall a 'Very Good' set. Heavy - additional shipping may be required.

Three volumes, quarto, profusely illustrated with full-page plates exquisitely hand-coloured; uniformly bound in half morocco richly gilt, all edges gilt, with the gilt arms of the Barons Sherborne. A remarkable collaboration and an exquisite work of Victorian natural history. As one of the pre-eminent entomologists of the Victorian period, John Obadiah Westwood (1805-1893) served as collaborator, editor, and consultant on many entomological publications. He was a prodigious author and researcher, publishing some four hundred scientific papers and some twenty books, as well as making numerous contributions to works by other authors. In 1833, he was one of the founding members of the Entomological Society and he became honorary life president in 1883, and a fellow of the Linnaean Society. It was for his study of Australian species that Anthony Musgrave, author of the Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775-1930, named the period 1831-1861 "The Westwoodian Period", in recognition of his great service, during these years, to Australian entomology (Musgrave, p. 345). Henry Noel Humphreys (1810-1879) was an accomplished illustrator and scholar in numerous subjects. In addition to his entomological texts, Humphreys wrote works on ancient Greek and Roman coins, archaeology, and the art of writing and printing enriching even these simplest texts with exquisite chromolithographs printed by Owen Jones. He was inspired to embark on this ambitious planned survey of British insects following a trip to Italy. In the Preface he likened the person in the fields, unacquainted with natural history, to one placed in a library and unable to read. "He cannot read in the beautiful book of nature when in the summer it opens its brightest leaves". A contemporary review in The Lancet noted: The plates, exquisitely drawn by Mr. Humphreys, represent the insect in its three great stagesas the caterpillar, the chrysalis, and the butterfly or moth all hanging side by side on the plants which furnish their ordinary food. The transformation thus seems to take place under the eye; and the metamorphoses are associated in the mind, without any effort." In response to Humphreys' claim that "Entomology is a branch of knowledge more easily acquired than many imagine. The individual beauty of the insects in every stage, the ease with which they are preserved, and the comparative facility with which a complete collection of British species may be formed, particularly of butterflies, of which we number scarcely more than eighty distinct species, render it a task of easy attainment" the same reviewer wryly noted "Mr. Humphreys throws out a suggestion, which has, perhaps, a touch of the butterfly Utopia in it, but which is ingenious, and deserves trial." . Provenance: Each volume with the gilt arms of the Barons Sherborne, (with links to Australia through the Duttons of Anlaby, South Australia); and the bookplate of Princess Despina (Mary) Karadja (1868-1943), poet, writer on spiritualism, founder of the White Cross Union and wife of the envoy to the Ottoman empire Jean-Constantin Karadja, a distinguished diplomat and noted book collector.

Half-Leather. Etat : Good. H N Humphreys (illustrateur). 2nd Edition. A good copy of the 2nd Edition in 2 volumes, in contemporary half leather bindings with 124 hand coloured plates by H Noel Humphreys. The bindings are half morocco leather with marbled boards. The spines have raised bands with gilt compartments and gilt titles. All page edges gilt. The bindings are sound, but with a lot of scuffing, particularly to the marbling, and wear - most obvious to the corners. Vol I has an armorial bookplate to the front pastedown with the initials GTL and a bookplate of Sir Arthur Clay to the fep. There is a small round stamp of Hendon Public Libraries to the title pages of both volumes and both have a library marking to the verso of the title. Both volumes are complete: Vol I: title page; plate list; preface; text with errata and corrigenda, index and alphabetical list 258pp with 56 plates. Vol II: title page; plate list; text with addenda and corrigenda and alphabetical list 268pp with 68 plates. Hendon Libraries have been relatively modest in their stamping: each plate has a small (1 cm) stamp to the back, and there is a round stamp in the bottom margin of every 50th text page and at the end. Contents are generally clean with the odd mark or spot and the plates are in very good condition overall. The odd page corner has been turned over at some point. Vol I has splitting at the front endpaper joint, but the book is currently sound, and the initial pages have slightly crinkled side edges. There are a couple of scuffed areas to the text pp (at 137 and 171) with the loss of a couple of letters. There is a small repaired margin tear at p133. Vol II has a brown ink mark extending from the top page edge into the first text para at p 143.

with 124 full page hand-colored lithograph plates. Contemporary red cloth, gilt title on spine, edges speckled; interior clean and crisp. A gorgeous copy of this monumental work, an important set for any natural history lover. First edition of Volume I, later edition Volume II.

Pp. xiv, 258; xix, 268, 124 fine hand-colored lithographed plates. Publisher's original wine red pebble cloth, spine gilt-lettered and with elaborate gilt floral decorations, front covers with gilt-pictorial image of moths, 4to. The fine hand-colored plates display the moths next to the plants and flowers they inhabit. Slight edge wear to cloth, some uniform age-toning to the text leaves with a touch of scattered foxing, the fine hand-colored plates are bright and clean with no browning or foxing; an attractive copy in very good condition.