Cannes, [Société des Sciences Naturelles, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Cannes et de l'Arrondissement de Grasse and others [for the author], [1875]-1881. Seven papers in one. Large 8vo (24.9 x 16.0 cm). Title page, 142 pp. [I (1875): 16; II (1877): 14; III (1878): 24; IV (1878): 15 [titled Iconographie et description de chenilles et lépidoptères inédits]; V (1879): 31; VI (1879): 20; VII (ND but 1881?): 22]; stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of the author,12 finely hand-coloured engraved or lithographed plates. Contemporary dark green quarter morocco over dark green blind-stamped boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt.

An ultra-rare complete copy of the first edition, signed and dedicated by the author, the French entomologist Pierre Millière (1811-1887), on the half-title "A monsieur A. Lavallée" (most probably the French entomologist Alphonse Lavallée [1835-1884]). It consists of seven papers, all but the third numbered, and containing descriptions and illustrations of new and poorly known butterflies and moths, chiefly from the French Mediterranean. Offprints, with new pagination, first published in several different periodicals, viz. Mémoires de la Société des Sciences naturelles et historiques des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Cannes, Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon, and Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique, hence small differences in size and type faces, and resulting in a convoluted plate numbering. Later, in 1883, a new edition was published, titled Lépidoptèrologie. Huit fascicules. And a part VIII was added, with 27 pages and four plates earlier (1882) published in the Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon, but also reworked into an offprint with new pagination. OCLC reports only one copy with certainty, namely in the Landesbibliothek Coburg. All other records refer to ebooks. KIT records another one, in Geneva. Even the very rich NEV library in Leiden does not have a copy. Boards a bit faded, some staining to the endpaper versos and blanks, and - vague - on one plate. Otherwise a very good, clean copy with beautifully fine plates. Horn-Schenkling II, p. 105 (second edition only).