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Entomologia - Illustrati francesi - Lucas, Pierre Hippolyte
Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres Exotiques, 1835
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Paris, F. Savy, s.d. In great 8th. Frontispiece and 80 hand-colored chalcographic plates engraved by Pauquet depicting moths and 2 black and white plates depicting the tools for their hunting and cataloging, rare blooms, coeval binding in shagreen embossed, author, title and friezes embossed in gold on the spine. Stamps on the title page.
Specialist Notes
Rare specimen dedicated to exotic butterflies which includes 80 plates describing 400 different species of lepidoptera.