Historia insectorum / autore Joanne Raio ... ; opus posthumum jussu Regiae Societatis Londinensis editum ; cui subjungitur Appendix de Scarabaeis Britannicis, autore M. Lister ..
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Physical description:
xv, [1], 400 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. (4to)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Place:
Great Britain
Date:
1710
MDCCX [1710]
Notes:
"Many of the descriptions of insects are ascribed to [Francis] Willughby"--Keynes.
Includes Ray's Methodus insectorum, p. iii-xv, published separately in 1705 as prelude to the present work.
"Appendix de scarabaeis Britannicis": p. 377-398.
The only illustrations in the volume appear on p. 264.
Page 357 is misnumbered as 351.
Signatures: A⁴ a⁴ B-3E⁴.
Keynes, G. John Ray, 104
ESTC (online) T093679
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SCNHRB copy 39088003164118 has bookplate laid in: Entomology Station, United States Department of Agriculture Library. With shelf mark: 422 R21; accession no.: 429397. Ms. pencil and ink inscriptions on the front free endpaper: Barnes Coll.; Dr. Mead.
SCNHRB copy has a modern red morocco leather quarter binding with blue paste-paper boards; raised bands; gilt-lettered spine; and red edges. Some leaves have had their edges repaired with tissue paper.
