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Biology - Zoology - Denton, Sherman Foote. As Nature Shows them: Moths and Butterflies of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains. 2 volumes. With 56 nature self-prints of butterflies on paper backing, mounted individually or in pairs on plates with silk shirts, and over 400 photographs in the text. Boston, Widden & Millet, 1900. X pp. 3, 161 pp.; XI, 2 pp. 162-361. 26 x 18 cm. Early 20th century blue-green marocco binding with gilt-stamped spine titles, broad gilt inner edges, hand-marbled endpapers and gilt head edges, signed MacLehose, Glasgow (spine slightly faded). Only edition, one of 500 numbered copies. - Nissen, ZBI 1079. - "The colored plates, or Nature Prints, used in this work, are direct transfers from the insects themselves; that is to say, the scales of the wings of the insects are transferred to the paper while the bodies are printed from engravings and afterwards colored by hand." (Preface). - Preparations partly with minor traces of glue in the margins of the backing sheets, otherwise fresh. VAT: *
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Biology - Zoology - Denton, Sherman Foote. As Nature Shows them: Moths and Butterflies of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains. 2 volumes. With 56 nature self-prints of butterflies on paper backing, mounted individually or in pairs on plates with silk shirts, and over 400 photographs in the text. Boston, Widden & Millet, 1900. X pp. 3, 161 pp.; XI, 2 pp. 162-361. 26 x 18 cm. Early 20th century blue-green marocco binding with gilt-stamped spine titles, broad gilt inner edges, hand-marbled endpapers and gilt head edges, signed MacLehose, Glasgow (spine slightly faded). Only edition, one of 500 numbered copies. - Nissen, ZBI 1079. - "The colored plates, or Nature Prints, used in this work, are direct transfers from the insects themselves; that is to say, the scales of the wings of the insects are transferred to the paper while the bodies are printed from engravings and afterwards colored by hand." (Preface). - Preparations partly with minor traces of glue in the margins of the backing sheets, otherwise fresh. VAT: *
