£140
Natural History, Entomology. Plates I-L from Albin's and Derham's A Natural History of English Insects, third edition, one of 150 copies, London: Printed for William Pater-noster Row, 1749, 50 hand-coloured copperplate engravings only, without the accompanying letterpress leaves, browned and toned, the Plate I stained, it and others discreetly re-margined, split, later papered wrappers, disbound, uncut, 4to (29 x 23.4cm), a Dutch hand-coloured plate, late 18th/early 19th c, accompanying letterpress leaves, 4to, and The Natural History of Wicken Fen off-print, 4pp, 8vo, (3)
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