Les papillons, métamorphoses terrestres des peuples de l'air

NUS Eugène & MERAY Antony
watercolor by VARIN Amédée
Les Papillons, métamorphoses terrestres des peuples de l'air
[The Butterflies, Terrestrial Metamorphoses of the People of the Air]
Gabriel de Gonet, Paris n. d. [1852], 18 x 27,5 cm, half green shagreen
First edition illustrated with 35 hand-colored insert plates and a few black-and-white illustrations.
Half green shagreen, spine in four compartments with blind tooled double panels and gilt garlands, lettered in gilt, a few signs of minor wear and tear to the tips of the spine, blind tooled fillets on the fir-green covers, marbled endpapers, speckled edges, contemporary binding.
Occasional light spotting.
A rare copy of one of the finest Romantic illustrated books.
$ 1 250