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Iconotypes - A compendium of butterflies and moths. Jones's Icones Complete (Hardcover)
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Iconotypes - A compendium of butterflies and moths. Jones's Icones Complete (Hardcover)
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Jones's Icones contains finely delineated paintings of more than
760 species of Lepidoptera, many of which it described for the
first time, marking a critical moment in the study of natural
history. With Iconotypes Jones's seminal work is published for the
first time, accompanied by expert commentary and contextual essays,
and featuring annotated maps showing the location of each species.
Jones painted the species between the early 1780s and 1800, drawing
from his own collection and the collections of Joseph Banks, Dru
Drury, Sir James Edward Smith, John Francillon, the British Museum
and the Linnean Society. For every specimen painting he provided a
species name, the collection from which it was taken and the
geographical location in which it was found. In 1787, during a
visit to London, the Danish scientist Johann Christian Fabricius
studied Jones's paintings and based 231 species of butterfly and
moths on them. In this enhanced facsimile, Jones's references to
historic references are clarified and modern taxonomic names are
provided, together with notes on which paintings serve as
iconotypes. Contextual commentary by specialist entomologist
Richard I. Vane-Wright gives an account of Jones's life and his
motivation for collecting butterflies and creating the Icones, and
evaluates the significance of his work. Interspersed at intervals
between the pages of Jones's paintings are modern maps showing the
location of each species painted, and expert essays on the
development of lepidoptery and taxonomy after Linneaus, and the
roles of collectors and natural history artists from the late 1700s
to mid-1800s. With 1600 illustrations in colour In partnership with
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
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