Maynard, Charles J.:

$150 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND; WITH ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS OF ONE HUNDRED AND SIX SPECIES, ACCOMPANIED BY EIGHT LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES, IN WHICH ARE GIVEN AT LEAST TWO HAND-COLORED FIGURES OF EACH ... First edition. Each plate consists of several handcolored butterfly figures, illustrating overall more than a hundred species. Maynard was an experimenter in color printing and supervised all the color work for his numerous books, including THE BIRDS OF FLORIDA (1872-78), THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA (1881), and EGGS OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS (1890).

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