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Major George F L Marshall and Lionel De Niceville
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.

An early pioneering manual that exhaustively described each known genus and species in the region at the time.

"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).

These three volumes are the first systematic work on Indian butterflies and although three families, the swallowtails (Papilionidae), the whites (Pieridae) and the skippers (Hesperidae) are not dealt with, all the butterflies known at the time from the remaining families were covered. L de Niceville's butterfly collection today is a part of the National collections at the Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta.

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PASSAGES TO INDIA: A JOURNEY THROUGH RARE BOOKS, PRINTS, MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND LETTERS
24-26 JULY 2024

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