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Author Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885, artist, author.

Title The butterflies of North America : Titian Peale's lost manuscript / [by Titian Ramsay Peale] ; foreword by Ellen V. Futter ; preface and scientific captions by David A. Grimaldi ; introduction by Kenneth Haltman.

Publication Info. New York : American Museum of Natural History : in association with Abrams, 2015.
©2015

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  595.78 PEALE    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  595.78 PEA    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  OV 595.78 PEA    Check Shelf
Description 255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Note "This work, along with a companion volume on caterpillars, was never published, and resides today in the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History's Library in New York"--Page [4] of cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [248]-249) and index.
Contents Foreword. The butterflies of Titian Ramsay Peale / by Ellen V. Futter -- Preface. Titian Ramsay Peale : America's first lepidopterist / by David A. Grimaldi -- Introduction. A life of artful science : the metamorphosis of Titian Ramsay Peale / by Kenneth Haltman -- The plates. The butterflies of North America, diurnal Lepidoptera : whence the come, where they go, and what they do / by Titian Ramsay Peale -- The prospectus. Lepidoptera Americana : or, Original figures of the moths and butterflies of North America : in their various stages of existence, and the plants on which they feed, drawn on stone, and coloured from nature : with their characters, synonyms, and remarks on their habits and manners / by Titian Ramsay Peale -- The caterpillar album. Lepidoptera : larva, food-plant, pupa &c. / by Titian Ramsay Peale -- Titian Ramsay Peale's letter "to the publishers".
Subject Butterflies -- North America -- Pictorial works.
Butterflies -- North America.
Lepidoptera -- North America -- Pictorial works.
Lepidoptera -- North America.
Lepidoptera. (OCoLC)fst00996288
Butterflies. (OCoLC)fst00843103
North America. (OCoLC)fst01242475
Genre/Form Illustrated works (OCoLC)fst01423873
Pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01423874
Illustrated works.
Added Author Futter, Ellen V., author of foreword.
Grimaldi, David A., author of preface and scientific captions.
Haltman, Kenneth, 1957- author of introduction.
American Museum of Natural History. Library, current owner of manuscript.
American Museum of Natural History, issuing body.
Added Title Titian Peale's lost manuscript
ISBN 9781419717840
1419717847
Standard No. 9781419717840
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