Noctuelles et Geometres d'Europe. Vol. I-IV

Description:

Rare first edition. Text French. Premiere Partie, Noctuelles (Vol. I-II), Deuxieme Partie, Geometres (Vol. III-IV). Still forms a useful identification guide to European species of Noctuid and Geometrid moths. 151 numbered chromolithographic plates and 1 plain plate (Pl. A).

Condition

4 vols bound in 3, 8vo, blue cloth (not uniform but closely matching), minor wear: Vol. I-II (Noctuelles), in 2 vols, leather title pieces to spines, rubbed; Vols III-IV (Geometres), 2 vols bound in 1. Occasional foxing to text, heavier to first and final leaves. Names neatly added in ink to bottom margin of most plates in Vol. I only. A good set. From the library of British lepidopterist Bernard Skinner (d. 2017), author of Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles (1984), with his small ownership label.