THE DICTIONARY OF BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS in Colour

London: Peerage Books, 1983. xiv, + 296pp., colour photographic illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Blue boards (illustration to front panel) undamaged. Faint and tiny foxing spots to textblock head, else leaves clean. Illustrated dustjacket negligibly edge-creased, and foxed on reverse. Introduction by W. Donald Duckworth. " . . . this volume includes members of virtually every known family of Lepidoptera and illustrates over one thousand of the more scientifically and visually dramatic species. The A-Z Dictionary of some two thousand entries gives the scientific facts: distribution, habitats, food plants, sizes, and unusual relationships that occur - the ant-reared caterpillar, for example, or the moths on which the yucca plant depends for fertilization. The alphabetical format offers immediate access to a vast amount of information - based on years of intensive research by the authors - on the entirety of the Order Lepidoptera throughout the world. The text is complemented by 144 pages of stunning full-colour plates, showing more than a thousand species in their natural habitat or as set specimens." Includes Glossary. Book weight approx. 1.67 KG. * Buyers outside Australia - This item will incur extra postage charges as it weighs over 1KG. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Revised Edition.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good +/Very Good.