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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…
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- Title The Butterflies of North America: Titian Peale's Lost Manuscript
- Author Titian Peale (Illustrator); Kenneth Haltman; Preface by David Grimaldi
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harry N. Abrams, New York
- Date 2015-09
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781419717840 / 1419717847
- Weight 3.11 lbs (1.41 kg)
- Dimensions 11.13 x 8.63 x 1.25 in (28.27 x 21.92 x 3.18 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Butterflies - North America
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014959567
- Dewey Decimal Code 595.789
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