The Butterflies of Europe described and figured: Rhopalocera Europae descripta et delineata. Vol. I (Text) - II (Plates)

Description:

Originally published in parts 1881-1884. Illustrated with more than eight hundred coloured figures, drawn, mostly from nature, under the direction of the author. Fine chromolithographic plates by Horace Knight, printed by West, Newman & Co.

Nissen ZBI 2374.

Condition

2 vols (Text + Plates), large 8vo, cont. brown half morocco, raised bands to spine, gt titles and tooling to compartments, cloth boards, top edge gilt. Some foxing to text volume, heavier to prelims; plates largely clean, with only occasional light foxing. A few marginal pencil annotations. Pocket at rear of text volume includes an offprint from The Entomologist LVI (1923): 157-161, by G.H. Gurney 'Lepidoptera at Guethary, basses Pyrenees', with two small b/w photographs of caterpillars, one of a mountainous landscape, and a nature print (upper and lowe side) of a Small Heath butterfly (Coenonympha pamphilus). A fine, attractively bound set.