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Butterflies.- Doubleday (Edward) and John O. Westwood. The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera, 2 vol., first edition, 86 lithograph plates by William C. Hewitson, all but one hand-coloured, minor occasional foxing, contemporary green morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt, spines gilt in compartments but faded, folio, 1846-52.

⁂ A superb set ofDoubleday's 'most ambitious work' (ODNB). Left unfinished at the author's early death, it was finally completed byWestwoodin 1852.

Description

Butterflies.- Doubleday (Edward) and John O. Westwood. The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera, 2 vol., first edition, 86 lithograph plates by William C. Hewitson, all but one hand-coloured, minor occasional foxing, contemporary green morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt, spines gilt in compartments but faded, folio, 1846-52.

⁂ A superb set ofDoubleday's 'most ambitious work' (ODNB). Left unfinished at the author's early death, it was finally completed byWestwoodin 1852.

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