Title continues: New Edition, with their systematic names, synonyms, and additional observations upon the habits of the species figured. By John O. Westwood. Contemporary half morocco rubbed at extremities (particularly along lower edge), some superficial scratches; elaborate gilt to spine; all edges gilt. Marbled boards and endpapers. Text: xi, 83, [4] pages. Additional coloured title, key plate, and 44 hand-coloured plates; no frontispiece. Paper rough-edged lower right plates 12 and 22. Foxing to verso of endpaper and facing blank leaf only; occasional inoffensive blemish; overall quite stu... View More...
xxiii, 350 pages, 3 plates, and advert leaf at rear. Extremities rubbed, with chip off crown of spine. Old Conworth signatures to front free endpaper and rear pastedown. Spine label with "2" as this volume was seen as a continuation of the author's 1753 [2nd ed. 1755] Contemplations on the Ocean, Harvest, Sickness, and the Last Judgment.... 6.5 x 4.2 inches. View More...