This volume treats of the poetry rather than the science of entomology. Three "books" describe groups of insects, in regard to their metamorphoses, their industries, their social communities. The beautiful illustrations combine flowers and landscapes with insect life.
NATURE; or, The Poetry of Earth and Sea. From the French of Mme. Michelet. With upwards of Two Hundred Illustrations drawn specially for this Work by Giacomelli (Illustrator of "The Bird"), and engraved by the most eminent French and English Artists. Imperial 8vo, cloth, richly gilt. Price 10s. 6d.
A volume of picturesque description, beautifully illustrated, of garden scenes, pastoral and woodland landscapes, mountains and valleys, lake and river scenery, and the sea-coasts, in many and widely varying lands.
ELEGANT GIFT-BOOKS.
RICHLY ILLUSTRATED.
THE FAMOUS PARKS AND GARDENS OF THE WORLD, Described, and Illustrated. With upwards of Eighty Fine Engravings. Imperial 4to, handsomely bound in cloth, full gilt. Price 15s.
A popular description of Remarkable Parks and Gardens, public and private, ancient and modern, interspersed with illustrative anecdotes and notes on the history of Gardening. Beginning with the Gardens of Antiquity, those of Rome and Greece and the Eastern World, we pass on to the Medieval Gardens, the Gardens of the Renaissance, the Modern Gardens of Europe and Great Britain, and those which are now most celebrated abroad and at home.
THE ARCTIC WORLD ILLUSTRATED: Its People, Plants, Animals, and Natural Phenomena. With a Historical Sketch of Arctic Discovery, and a Narrative of the British Expedition of 1875-76. By the Author of "The Mediterranean Illustrated." With Twenty-five Full-page and One Hundred and Twenty other Engravings, and Map of the Polar Regions. Royal folio, cloth extra, gilt edges. Price 15s.
A volume of picturesque rather than scientific descriptions of Arctic scenery, with its "wonders of sky and sea and land;" intended to "place before the reader, with bold touches, a picture of that Polar World which is so awful and yet so fascinating."