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Home > Auction >  Fine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases and Historical Photographs >  Lot.170 The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, Calcutta, Calcutta Central Press, 1882-1890 MARSHALL (GEORGE F.L.) AND LIONEL DE NICEVILLE
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LOT 170 The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, Calcutta, Calcutta Central Press, 1882-1890 MARSHALL (GEORGE F.L.) AND LIONEL DE NICEVILLE

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MARSHALL (GEORGE F.L.) AND LIONEL DE NICEVILLE


The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, frontispieces (2 colour), 29 plates (one chromolithographed, others collotypes), illustrations in the text, contemporary half morocco gilt, 8vo, Calcutta, Calcutta Central Press, 1882-1890
|"India, the land of sunshine, is a land of Butterflies... startled by the approach of an intruder, they rise expanding into a cloud of gorgeous colours of every hue" (Preface). Pioneering handbook providing a detailed description of every genus and species known in the region at the time.

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