Histoire naturelle des lépidoptères exotiques. Avec 80 planches représentant 400 sujets, peintes d'après nature, gravées sur acier par Pauquet.

LUCAS, Pierre Hippolyte

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Paris, F. Savy, [1864]

8vo: [4]-156-xii pp. (spotting throughout not affecting the pl., some waterstains, some pl. detaching).

Green cloth (corners sl. bumped), blindst. covers, flat spine (some def.).

Second edition of this attractive work on exotic butterflies by the French entomologist and assistant at the French National Museum of Natural History P.-H. Lucas (1814-1899) orig. publ. in instalments. Illustr. with an engr. title, 80 beautiful hand-coloured engr. pl. by Pauquet after A.N. Noël and 2 pl. in b/w. Ref. Nissen (ZBI) 2581. Prov. Ms. ownership entry on half title.