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The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon [3 Volumes] - Major George F L Marshall and Lionel De Niceville - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon [3 Volumes]

Major George F L Marshall and Lionel De Niceville, The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon: A Descriptive Handbook of all the known species of Rhopalocerous Lepidoptera inhabiting that region, with notices of allied species occurring in the neighbouring countries along the border; with numerous illustrations, Calcutta: Calcutta Central Press, 1882-1890

In 3 volumes
Volume I: Colour frontispiece chromolithograph by Messrs. West, New man & Co. + 17 black-and-white autotype plates by the Autotype Company of London + many black-and-white engravings by George Pearson; 1882
Volume II: black-and-white frontispiece and 8 black-and-white autotype plates by the Autotype Company of London; 1886
Volume III: Colour frontispiece chromolithograph and 1 more plate by Messrs. West, New man & Co. + 5 black-and-white autotype plates by the Autotype Company of London; 1880
Half leather board with gilt text at the spine with 4 raised bands (each). Original floral golden endpapers in Volume 2 and 3. Each plate drawn by Babu Grish Chunder Chuckerbutty and Babu Behari Lall Das.

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