Instructions for collecting, rearing, and preserving British & foreign insects : also for collecting and preserving crustacea and shells / by Abel Ingpen.

Ingpen, Abel, -1854, Instructions for collecting, rearing, and preserving British & foreign insects , 1839

Creator:: Ingpen, Abel, -1854
Title(s):: Instructions for collecting, rearing, and preserving British & foreign insects : also for collecting and preserving crustacea and shells / by Abel Ingpen.
Edition:: Second edition, with considerable corrections and additions.
Published/Created:: London : William Smith, 113, Fleet Street, 1839.
Physical Description:: 106 p., 3 leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
QL465 .I53 1839
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/8994205
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Lithographic illustrations by William Spry.
This edition has a new preface noting the inclusion of directions "for collecting and packing eotic insects", and also for the first time providing the names of suppliers of all the necessary equipment.
Printed by C. Whittingham, 21, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London.
NSTC, 212556
Freeman, R.B. British natural history books, 1886
Salmon, M. The Aurelian legacy, p. 143-144
Of green leaf, bird, and flower: artists' books and the natural world, p. 37
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in dark blue calf, with blind and gilt ruled borders, and gilt decorated spine. Booksellers' label: Porter and Wright, Booksellers & Stationers to Their Majesties, 60, Pall Mall.
Subject Terms:: Crustacea -- Collection and preservation.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Insects -- Collection and preservation.
Smith, William -- Publisher.
Whittingham, C. -- Printer.
Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation.
Form/Genre:: Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1839.
Contributors:: Spry, William, fl. 1832-1847, lithographer.
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