The natural history of the rarer lepidopterous insects of Georgia : including their systematic characters, the particulars of their several metamorphoses, and the plants on which they feed. Collected from the observation of Mr. John Abbot, many years resident in that country

Title Variants

Translated: Histoire naturelle des lépidoptères les plus rares de Georgie

By

Abbot, John, 1751-1840
Smith, James Edward, 1759-1828
Abbot, John, 1751-1840
Smith, James Edward, 1759-1828
Bensley, Thomas, ca 1760-1835
Edwards, James, 1756-1816
White, John
Cadell & Davies,

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed by T. Bensley, for J. Edwards [etc.], 1797

Notes

Sabin, 82789.

Each leaf of the descriptive text carries an English text on the recto and a French translation on the verso.

First illustrated work on American insects.

Brown, J.C. Bibliotheca Americana, | part III, entry 3919

Added t. p. in French.

Catalogue of the Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia library at Wormsloe, Isle of Hope near Savannah, Georgia., | vol. 1, p. 282

Text in English and French.

English short title catalogue, | T77154

Bound in red half leather; stamped in gold; marbled endpapers.

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, | entry 82789

Subjects

Early works , Early works to 1800 , Georgia , Lepidoptera

BHL Collections

Missouri Botanical Garden's Rare Books Collection

Call Number

QL551.G3S65 1797

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.201
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/agr04003607
NAL: 430 Sm52
OCLC: 248931