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THE BRITISH
, London, Secker & Warburg 1957, in-8, rel. éd., bon état, VII-286p.
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5 book(s) with the same title
The Genitalia of the Group Noctuidae of the Lepidoptera of the British Islands / The Genitalia of the Group Geometridae of the Lepidoptera of the British Islands / The Genitalia of the Tineid Families of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles / The Genitalia of the British Pyrales with Deltoids and Plumes / The Genitalia of the British Rhopalocera and the Larger Moths.
1909-1941 vii, 88, xxix, 88, xxii, 116, xiii, 69, 66 p., 32, 48, 68, 29, 21 plates, frontispiece, publisher's cloth. Last part with spine discoloured and with some wear. Library stamps, else a good set of the original edition.Originally six parts were published. This set lacks the Tortricidae (1922). The first two parts are by Pierce alone, the second and third part (of our set) is by Pierce and Metcalfe, and the last part is by Pierce and Beirne. Some of the original parts (there was a reprint edition in the sixties/seventies) are quite scarce now.
Catalogue of British Hymenoptera in the British Museum. Second edition. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. Catalogue of the British bees in the collection of the British Museum. New Issue.
1891 (2nd ed.) xi, 236 p., 11 plates. Original embossed brown cloth (spine missing). Bookplate on front paste-down, library stamp on title page. Top of spine taped and with a few worm-holes. Working copy onlyThis double titled publication is an "update" after the original series of hymenopterological catalogues of the British Museum collection which were published more than 20 years earlier. This part is the only one published and deals with bees only. 211 species are described and figured. List of British Museum publications bound in the rear.
Sir Hans Sloane. Collector, Scientist, Antiquary. Founding Father of the British Museum
MacGregor, Arthur ed.: Sir Hans Sloane. Collector, Scientist, Antiquary. Founding Father of the British Museum. London: British Museum Publications, 1994. 308pp with 40 colour and 117 monochrome illustrations. Cloth. 27.6x21.9cms. This is the first systematic survey of Sir Hans Sloane's Museum, acquired by the nation on his death in 1753, and one of the founding collections of the British Museum. The items and a series of 31 folio volumes forming the catalogue of the collection are presented in this volume which also offers a comprehensive reassessment of Sloane's life and work.
This is the first systematic survey of Sir Hans Sloane's Museum, acquired by the nation on his death in 1753, and one of the founding collections of the British Museum. The items and a series of 31 folio volumes forming the catalogue of the collection are presented in this volume which also offers a comprehensive reassessment of Sloane's life and work. Text in English
Catalogue of the ivory carvings of the Christian era with examples of Mohammedan art and carvings in bone in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquites and Ethnography of the British Museum
Dalton O.M.: Catalogue of the ivory carvings of the Christian era with examples of Mohammedan art and carvings in bone in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquites and Ethnography of the British Museum. London: British Museum, 1909. lii, 193 with numerous textual illustrations plus 125pp of monochrome illustrations. Cloth. 29x25cms. Catalogue covering ivory and bone carvings from the Roman; Early Christian; Byzantine; early Mediaeval and Romanesque; Gothic; Renaissance and later periods, plus Oriental carvings.
Catalogue covering ivory and bone carvings from the Roman; Early Christian; Byzantine; early Mediaeval and Romanesque; Gothic; Renaissance and later periods, plus Oriental carvings
The Genitalia of the Group Noctuidae of the Lepidoptera of the British Islands / The Genitalia of the Tineid Families of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles / The Genitalia of the British Pyrales with Deltoids and Plumes / The Genitalia of the British Rhopalocera and the Larger Moths.
1909-1941 vii, 88, xxii, 116, xiii, 69, 66 p., 32, 68, 29, 21 pls, frontispiece, publisher's cloth. Verso front cover with library stamp or bookplate / Ex libris, small label with number on spines, 3 parts with small unobtrusive blind stamp in lower corner of title-page, else good copies.Originally six parts were published. This set lacks the Geometridae (1914) and the Tortricidae (1922). The first part is by Pierce alone, the second and third part (of our set) is by Pierce and Metcalfe, and the last part is by Pierce and Beirne. Some of the original parts (there was a reprint edition in the sixties/seventies) are quite scarce now.
