[RENNIE, James & WESTWOOD, John Obadiah]. Insect Architecture; Insect Transformations; Insect Miscellanies. First edition. Three volumes. xii, 420pp; xii, 420pp; xii, 414pp., woodcut illustrations in the text. A very good set bound in matching contemporary dark blue half calf, blind tooled and gilt ruled spines, gilt lettering. Marbled boards. Some foxing, most noticeable on the end-papers and paste-downs. 8vo. Charles Knight. 1830-1831. ~ James Rennie (1787- 1867, Adelaide) was a Scottish naturalist. From 1830 to 1834 he was professor of natural history and zoology at King's College, when his Chair was abolished due to a dearth of students. From then on he made his living as a natural history author, and emigrated to Australia in1840, where he ran the College High School in Elizabeth Street, Sydney, with an emphasis on the arts and natural history. He co-authored Insect Transformations with John Obadiah Westwood, Fellow of the Linnean Society and president of the Entomological Society of London (1852–1853).