VICTORIAN ENTOMOLOGIST'S NOTEBOOK: mid-19thc commonplace book with calligraphic ownership of on

VICTORIAN ENTOMOLOGIST'S NOTEBOOK: mid-19thc commonplac...

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VICTORIAN ENTOMOLOGIST'S NOTEBOOK: mid-19thc commonplace book with calligraphic ownership of one B Adshead, various entries including some 20pp of neatly arranged and close written text on entomology, including substantial sections on collecting specimens, setting and arranging the cabinet, preservation, transporting, 3pp section on instruments including several fine pencil drawings, tabulated lists of moth and butterfly genera with their scientific name, references, foods of larvae, time of transforming into chrysalis and general remarks, other intermittent unrelated entries to include some loosely inserted pencil sketches, large 8vo commonplace book of period, half black morocco over patterned boards, scuffed with loss to spine, contents generally sound. (1)

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Auction Date: 8th Oct 2020 at 12pm

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