The second volume published with Trübner & Co., London.
Two 8vo volumes; original dark green pebbled cloth, lettered in gilt on spines; pp. iv + (vi) + 190 + (x), [183-353] + (xxv); 1 plate in the first volume and a further 6 plates in the second. Cloth a little rubbed; earlier owners' names signed on front endpapers; quite foxed throughout; scientific names pencilled-in below each illustration in second volume's plates; duplication of concluding leaves from first book at start of second. Good condition.
(Hosken, p. 202; Mendelssohn II, p. 524) Roland Trimen (1840-1916) "came to the Cape in 1858 and arranged the collection of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) in the South African Museum, Cape Town. ... In his spare time he worked on his Rhopalocera Africae australis ... With Darwin, H. W. Bates, Fritz Müller and Meldola, Trimen created the science of bionomics or ecology, contributing, in 1869, his great paper, 'On some remarkable mimetic analogies among African butterflies' ... Darwin acknowledged the help his friend Trimen gave him in connection with the problem of how orchids are fertilized. Trimen's name is also commemorated in many specific names of butterflies. But, on the whole, his valuable work and minute descriptions of South African butterflies, which we owe almost entirely to his painstaking labour, have not yet been fully appreciated." - DSAB II, pp. 750-751
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