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The Butterflies of North America: Titian Peales Lost Manuscript
by American Museum of Natural History
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- ISBN 10
- 1419717847
- ISBN 13
- 9781419717840
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New York: Abrams, 2015. 256, col illus. . HB. NEW. . The American artist and naturalist Titian Ramsay Peale II (1799-1885) had a passion for butterflies and throughout his long life he wrote and illustrated The Butterflies of North America: Whence They Come, Where They Go, and What They Do, an ambitious and comprehensive manuscript. The book, along with a companion volume on caterpillars, was never published and resides today in the rare book library of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Now, Peale's colour plates, lovingly prepared for the printer and then put carefully away by the artist more than one hundred years ago, are published for the first time in this beautiful volume. At last, Peale's life work, equivalent in scope and beauty to Audubon's Birds of North America, will be available to a wide audience. Titian Ramsay Peale II was the youngest son of Charles Willson Peale, the patriarch of the remarkable Pennsylvania family that contributed so much to the growth of art and science in the early years of the United States. His story is told in Kenneth Haltman's introductory essay, which also describes the art and science he brought to his life's work on butterflies.. [9781419717840]
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- Pemberley Natural History Books
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- Title
- The Butterflies of North America: Titian Peales Lost Manuscript
- Author
- American Museum of Natural History
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1419717847
- ISBN 13
- 9781419717840
- Publisher
- Abrams
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2015
- Keywords
- Butterflies; Rhopalocera; Lepidoptera; History of Natural History
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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