The Macrolepidoptera of the World Vol. 1: The Palearctic Butterflies [with Supplement]

Description:

English edition. Main volume (Text & Plates, 2 vols) (1909), and the Supplement (1932). Fine chromolithographic plates.

Condition

3 vols, large 4to, main work (2 vols), cont. half morocco, professionally rebacked, spine with raised bands, gilt titles to compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, endpapers foxed, otherwise clean, Text Vol. with hand-drawn map of Palearctic Region tipped in at rear endpaper, Plate Vol. with tears to flyleaf and half-title neatley repaired with archival tape; Supplement, orig. half morocco, top edge tinted red, printed part wrappers bound at rear. Some rubbing to extremities. Nice set. From the library of British lepidopterist, Graham Howarth (1916-2015), with his bookplate to each volume.