Beschreibung:

Barbut (Jacques). Les Genres des Insectes de Linne; constatés par divers Échantillons d'Insectes d'Angleterre, copiés d'après nature, London: Jacques Dixwell, 1781, additional engraved title (with text in English), twenty hand-coloured mounted engraved plates mostly heightened with gum arabic (includes one folding, single-page plates with adhesive marks to margin corners), two folding uncoloured charts, bound with: The Genera Vermium exemplified by various specimens of the animals contained in the orders of the intestinal et mollusca Linnaei, drawn from nature, London: James Dixwell, 1783, additional engraved title (offsetting to letterpress title, plus a duplicate bound in), 11 hand-coloured mounted engraved plates, some offsetting from plates, occasional browning and scattered spotting, marbled endpapers with later bookcloth strip hinges, all edges gilt, contemporary diced calf, rebacked preserving original spine, rubbed, 4to