A rarely seen work on rarely seen colourful butterflies
Westwood, J. O.
Observations on the Uraniidae, a family of lepidopterous insects, with a synopsis of the family and a monograph of Coronidia, one of the genera of which it is composed.
Published
1879
Item ID
21646
€120.00
London, The Zoological Society, 1879. Large 4to (31.8 x 25.0 cm). 36 pp.; four lithographed plates of which two beautifully hand-coloured. Disbound.
A seldom seen monograph with amazing illustrations, written by one of the foremost 19th-century British entomologists, John Obadiah Westwood (1805-1893). Many species are new. Published in the Society's Transactions. Small damp stain in the lower outer edge of the plain plates, not on the full colour plates. A very good copy. Horn-Schenkling II(4) p. 422.