moufet (1 Ergebnisse)

65 p., numerous figures, 4to, hardbound (dust jacket). Library stamps, else good copy. Published in a limited edition of 500 copies (this is number 14).Thomas Moufet's insect book of 1634, later issued in translation as The theater of insects must rank alongside the works of Gilbert White and Thomas Bewick as being the best-known of any English book of natural history. Here George Thomson handled only the Lepidoptera.