Solution to the mystery of "Sean Kernan's faux 'Early Plates on the Morphology of Insects of the Axa Delta'" ?

The "plates" are part of a mystery that turned up in a search of the internet a few days ago. 

If you Google the phrase above, you'll eventually reach a corner of the World Wide Labyrinth in which there are a small number of books filed on a shelf...not the books themselves, actually, but references to them.

This is a shelf of chimerical books that are referred to in works by the great Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. But do they actually exist? Well, yes, in the sense that you can read about them in Borges' stories.

On the other hand, Borges also wrote "The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes! A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books already exist, and then to offer a resume, a commentary . . . More reasonable, more inept, more indolent, I have preferred to write notes upon imaginary books." 

So the shelf, as it turns out, is in a corner of Borges' mind! And it has attracted  the attention of a website called themodernword.com. This amazing site has a section on Borges, and nested there is a list of  "Books Borges Never Wrote." It details numerous examples, including one on what maybe his most extensively explored, the legendary Encyclopedia of Tlon. I won't even try to sum up the short story, but it features several false trails in the search for this book.

AND the man who wrote up this list, Allen Ruch, spices it with a few false trails of his own, including the following: "More than a few bibliophiles have declared the entire project to be as apocryphal as Tlon itself. This confusion is only made worse by persistant hoaxes and spurious fragments, such as the Thessaloniki Manuscripts, Sean Kernan's faux set of 'Early Plates on the Morphology of Insects of the Axa Delta.'"

So you are left standing in a corner of the vast enterprise of the Borgesian library holding a book that never existed by an author that does.

Note: (Borges loved notes) the Thessaloniki reference is to an event called Photosynkyria, held throughout that city every year. In 2001 the entire event was given to work inspired by Borges. And the great prize was won by...The Secret Books, a volume that is quite real. Here is a picture of one room in that library, and you can see the rest here.

So is the mystery solved? You can decide that for yourself.