RARE EARLY AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGY / INSECTS OF NORTH AMERICA THREE-VOLUME SET WITH COLOR PLATES, Thomas Say, American Entomology, or Descriptions of the Insects of North America. Illustrated by Coloured Figures From Original Drawings Executed From Nature. Philadelphia Museum: Published by Samuel Augustus Mitchell, 1824, 1825, and 1828. 54 hand-colored plates, most with tissue guards, engraved by C. Tiebout after T. R. Peale. Original bindings. Together with A Glossary to Say's Entomology. Philadelphia: Samuel Augustus Mitchell, 1825. Original binding with title pastedown to front cover. Four volumes total.
Provenance: Deaccessioned by the Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA to benefit collections care, preservation and future acquisitions.
Volume I with some scattered loose pages, but appears complete, plates are mostly clean and bright, interiors with minor scattered foxing except for extra volume which has some moderate foxing/toning and loose flyleaf, original boards present, volume III and extra volume with partially detached board, one lacking spine, another with loss to lower spine. Each with crossed out library stamp to front pastedown, no other library markings.
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