Description
Holland, W. J. The Moth Book: A popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Moths of North America. (Doubleday, Page & Company: Garden City, NY, 1915)
Quarto. xxiv, 479 pages. Hardcover. Bound in olive cloth-covered boards stamped in gilt on spine, with a blind frame and in gilt on front cover and with a blind ruled-frame on rear cover. Forty-eight color photographs and 263 in-text illustrations.
Condition: Good+. Edgewear to boards and spine ends. Slightly shaken and with some foxing. Previous owner’s name (H. M. Frantz) on FFE.
Rev William Jacob Holland FRSE LLD (August 16, 1848 – December 13, 1932) was the eighth Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh (1891–1901) and Director of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. He was an accomplished zoologist and paleontologist, as well as an ordained Presbyterian minister.
