
Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles
SOUTHWOOD, T.R.E., Dennis, LESTON
NEAR FINE COPY OF THE SCARCEST TITLE IN THE SERIES
Published: Warne, [1959]
Stock code: 28092
Price: £155.00
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured and monochrome plates, numerous illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of dark green faux-morocco, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt back, radial corners, green sprinkled edges, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities.
A very bright, clean copy of the scarcest title in the series. 'Even today it is indispensible for identifying British bugs (Heteroptera)' (Marren). VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Marren, pp. 183-184.