Say, Thomas American Entomology, or Descriptions of the Insects of North America. Illustrated by Coloured Figures from Drawings Executed from Nature. [Philadelphia:] Published for the Philadelphia Museum by Samuel Augustus Mitchell (William Brown printer), 1824–1828 3 volumes, 8vo in half-sheets (9 1/8 x 5 5/8 in.; 233 x 143 mm). Additional engraved pictorial title after C. A. Lesueur, 54 handcolored engraved plates after Lesueur, T. R. Peale, W. W. Wood, H. Bridport, and C. Tiebout by Tiebout, G. Lang and Longacre; some light offsetting, occasional foxing. American straight-grain green morocco, covers with an elaborate gilt-tooled frame, spines gilt in six compartments, board edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, edges marbled en suite; extremities a bit rubbed, a few very light scratches to covers.
Say, Thomas American Entomology, or Descriptions of the Insects of North America. Illustrated by Coloured Figures from Drawings Executed from Nature. [Philadelphia:] Published for the Philadelphia Museum by Samuel Augustus Mitchell (William Brown printer), 1824–1828 3 volumes, 8vo in half-sheets (9 1/8 x 5 5/8 in.; 233 x 143 mm). Additional engraved pictorial title after C. A. Lesueur, 54 handcolored engraved plates after Lesueur, T. R. Peale, W. W. Wood, H. Bridport, and C. Tiebout by Tiebout, G. Lang and Longacre; some light offsetting, occasional foxing. American straight-grain green morocco, covers with an elaborate gilt-tooled frame, spines gilt in six compartments, board edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, edges marbled en suite; extremities a bit rubbed, a few very light scratches to covers.
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