The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus

by Edward Doubleday, John Obadiah Westwood

$24,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Magnificent contemporary binding of full blue-green morocco richly gilt, a.e.g. by Clyde. One of the rarest and most beautiful iconographies of butterflies in a superb full morocco binding. The author's intention as laid out in the 'Address' in vol. I was to provide 'a correct idea of the genera' of 'diurnal lepidoptera' from all over the world that would 'furnish the student the means of investigating and arranging his Collection'. With this in mind they turned

• Binding: Leather

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