The Transactions [and Proceedings] of the Entomological Society of London for the year 1894[-1914]

Description:

Containing numerous papers on worldwide entomology by leading British entomologists of the period, such as George C. Champion (On the Tenebrionidae collected in Australia and Tasmania by Mr. James J. Walker, R.N., F.L.S., during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Penguin’ with descriptions of new genera and species, 1894, pp 351-408, 1 b/w plate); W.L. Distant (Contributions to the Knowledge of the Rhynchota, 1901, pp 581-592 1 col plate; Frederick A. Dixey (On the Phylogeny of the Pierinae, as illustrated by their Wing-markings and Geographical Distribution, 1894, pp 249-334, 3 b/w plates); Henry John Elwes (On the Lepidoptera of the Altai Mountains, 1899, pp 295-367, 4 col plates); William James Kaye (A preliminary catalogue of the Lepidoptera Heterocera of Trinidad, 1901, pp 115-158, 2 col plates); John Henry Leech (Lepidoptera from Northern China, Japan, and Corea, 1898, pp 261-379). Each volume bound with The Proceedings of the Entomological Society for the same year.

Condition

21 vols, 8vo, 19 vols in cont. qtr leather, raised bands to spine (rubbed, some wear, some board heavily marked, one vol. lacking backstrip, another with front joint split), 2 vols in near cont. boards, paper label to spines (rubbed, marked, one vol. with rear joint split). Some wear to extremities. Some foxing. Good.