78/2168 [Entomology]. Barbut, J. Les genres des insectes de Linné; constatés par divers échantillons d'insectes d'Angleterre, copiés d'après nature. London, J. Dixwell, 1781, (4),XVII,(3),371,(21) textp. in 2 columns w. parallel English and French text, engr. frontisp. and 22 (fold.) plates by J. NEWTON after J. BARBUT, 20 of which in very fine contemp. handcolouring, contemp. gilt hcalf w. mor. letterpiece, 4to.

- Occas. sl. foxed; 2 plates repaired w. cl. tape on verso; plates (as usual) w. sl. offsetting on opposite leaf; contents otherwise fine. Covers sl. rubbed; joints splitting/ starting at top of spine; backstrip sl. faded/ dam.

= Although there is no substantial biographical material on the English naturalist James Barbut (†1791), he "is best known for [this] companion publication on the Linnaean genera of insects that was gorgeously illustrated" (Damkaer I, 97). With the engraved English title as frontispiece. Nissen, ZBI 220; Horn-Schenkling 757. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.