Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 3rd October 2024

Lot 849

LITERATURE. A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON BUTTERFLIES

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £227

Inc. Buyers Premium

Description

LITERATURE. A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON BUTTERFLIES

to include: Frowhawk (F.W.), Natural History of British Butterflies, 2 volumes, published by Hutchinson & Co., London, c.1914; Raymundo da Silva (B.), Lepidopteros do Brasil, half leather bound, published by Imprensa Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 1907; Dickson (C.G.C.) editor, Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa, published by AD. Donker, Johannesburg, 1978; Lewis (H.L.), Butterflies of the World, published by Harrap, London, 1973; and D'Abrera (B.), Butterflies of the Australian Region, published by Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1971 (6)

Provenance

Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009).

The Trustees of Exbury House.