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32] Vorräthig- bei R. Friedländer & Sohn, Berlin. 



E. DoüOVan, Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India, 

 and the Islands in the Indian Seas. London, print. by Brensley, 1 800( — 1804). 4. 70 

 pages (sine sign.) with 58 coloured copper-plates (sine sign.) (Publ. at 4 ^ 4.) 



1 Contents: Coleoptera 6, Lepidoptera 40, Hymenoptera 2, Neuroptera 4, Orthoptera 5, Diptera 1, Hemi- 



ptera 1, Homoptera 2 plates, 



— The same. 2. edition under the title: Natural History of the Insects of India. 

 New edition, brought down to the present State of the science, with systematic cha- 

 racters of each species, Synonyms, indexes, and other additional matter by J. 0. 

 Westwood. London, Bohn, 4842. 4. VI a. 102 pg. with 58 coloured copper- 

 plates (sign. 1 — 58). (Publ. at 6 £ 6.) 



In that edition the Linnaean style of the original edition is changed to the present 

 State of science — the plates are therefore otherwise arranged — , the text is rewritten 

 viz. the nomenclature, Synonyms, localities are corrected, many additional observations 

 and an alphabetical index added. 



There is also an edition with piain plates (Sotheran's second-hand catalogue 3 & 3). 



The title of the book is not quite correct as Donovan, misled by careless indi- 

 cations of older authorities, has described West-Indian Insects (as West wo od states), 

 and even South-American and African butterflies (as W. F. K i r b y says). 



The chief charm of that, as of all Donovan's works, are its superb plates, engraved 

 and coloured with the utmost care. Though the 2. edition is also very well coloured, 

 printed on better paper and revised by a famous entomologist, still the 1. edition keeps 

 a higher price, being coloured in a superior way. 



All Donovan's works which at the time of their publication do not seem to have 

 been highly valued (E b e r t 1821: Waren in England wenig geschätzt. — 2. edition was 

 reduced at the publisher's from 6 I 6 to 2 ti 5) are now steadily rising in price, since 

 the importance of good figures for a correct description is universally acknowledged (see 

 Oberthür: Sans bonne figure a l'appui d'une description, il n'y a pas de nom valable 

 et la priorite appartient au premier iconographe plütot qu'au premier descripteur.) 



Both editions are out of print and scarce, the 1. one is much rarer. 



Our copy of the 1. edition, bound in füll morocco M. 120. — 2. edition, half 

 | bound calf M. 95. 



E. Doubleday and J. 0. WestWOOd, The Genera of Diu. mal Lepidoptera, 

 comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and 

 a catalogue of the species of each genus. Illustrated by W. C. Hewitson. 

 2 volumes. London, Longman, 1846 - 52. folio. XII a. 534 pg. with 85 plates, co- 

 loured by hand, a. 1 piain plate. (Publ. at 15 i 15.) 



Vol I: Papilionidae, Pieridae, Ageronidae, Danaidae, Heliconidae, Acraeidae a. part of Nymphalidae, by 

 Doubleday. 1846 50. pg. XII a. 1—250 with 1 plain [anatom.] plate [sign. A] a. 33 coloured plates [sign. 

 1- 30, 1*, 4*, 18*]. — Vol. II: Remainder of Nymphalidae, Morphidae, Brassolidae, Satyridae, Libytheidae, Erycinidae, 

 Lycaenidae a. Hesperidae, by Westwood. With Supplement [Additions a. corrections]. 1850-52. pg. 251 — 534 

 with 52 coloured plates [sign. 31—80, 54* a. 1 supplementary plate. — Plate 67 is by misprint marked in some 

 copies nr. 66]. 



This work is highly valued first as the plates , designed a. engraved by the 

 famous Hewitson and coloured by hand with unusual care, are of the best execution 

 possible and then because the text contains for the first time exact and very particular 

 descriptions of many Heterocera. Good figures and scientific letterpress are only seldom 

 united in works of that class. F. E. Guerin-Meneville says : Cet ouvrage est sans 

 contredit un des plus beaux livres d'entomologie que nous connaissions , et il nous 

 semble devoir aussi etre Tun des plus utiles ... En parcourant les planches de ce beau 

 livre, on croirait ouvrir les boites d'une riebe collection genCrique, on a veritablement 

 la nature sous yeux. 



One third of the text has been made by Doubleday and the remainder, after the 

 death of the latter, which occurred in 1849, by Westwood. Early (perhaps all subscribers' 

 copies) may be distinguished by their having plate 18* marked 18, without an asterisk. 



Out of print since long, seems not to have been published in an edition much 

 surpassing the copies which were subscribed for. Is always becoming rarer, the prieeis 

 rising. 



Our copy, half bound morocco, gilt edges. M. 520. The Plates of volume 1 

 are pierced by a nail. 



