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细节
MOSES HARRIS (1730-1788?)
Le Aurelien: ou, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Anglois; Mommement, les Phalenes et Papillons. London: for J. Robson, 1778 [but watermarked 1794]. 2 (500 x 300mm). French title, parallel English and French text in two columns. Engraved frontispiece, hand-coloured engraved diagrammatic plate, 44 fine hand-coloured engraved plates by Harris. (Unobtrusive blindstamps on the plates and some text leaves, lacking the English title.) 20th-century brown morocco, spine gilt (upper joint tender). Provenance: Sondeley Library, Ashevillle, North Carolina (blindstamps, ink accession number at foot of penultimate leaf).
A fine uncut copy of the second edition, an intermediate issue between Lisney's second and third issues. The plates to The Aurelien are amongst the most beautiful of all illustrations of entomology, showing dorsal and ventral views of all the subjects, together with various stages of development (egg, caterpillar, chysalis), each shown with their preferred food.
"Harris began to take an active interest in entomology about the age of twelve and, in spite of his lack of education, was an accurate and original observer... [He] certainly contributed much to the knowledge of the science and was one of the leading entomologists.... [and] one of the most oustanding authors of entomological literature during the eighteenth century" (Lisney pp.156-7). Cf. Lisney 232-233; cf. Nissen ZBI 1835.
Le Aurelien: ou, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Anglois; Mommement, les Phalenes et Papillons. London: for J. Robson, 1778 [but watermarked 1794]. 2 (500 x 300mm). French title, parallel English and French text in two columns. Engraved frontispiece, hand-coloured engraved diagrammatic plate, 44 fine hand-coloured engraved plates by Harris. (Unobtrusive blindstamps on the plates and some text leaves, lacking the English title.) 20th-century brown morocco, spine gilt (upper joint tender). Provenance: Sondeley Library, Ashevillle, North Carolina (blindstamps, ink accession number at foot of penultimate leaf).
A fine uncut copy of the second edition, an intermediate issue between Lisney's second and third issues. The plates to The Aurelien are amongst the most beautiful of all illustrations of entomology, showing dorsal and ventral views of all the subjects, together with various stages of development (egg, caterpillar, chysalis), each shown with their preferred food.
"Harris began to take an active interest in entomology about the age of twelve and, in spite of his lack of education, was an accurate and original observer... [He] certainly contributed much to the knowledge of the science and was one of the leading entomologists.... [and] one of the most oustanding authors of entomological literature during the eighteenth century" (Lisney pp.156-7). Cf. Lisney 232-233; cf. Nissen ZBI 1835.