LUCAS, Pierre Hippolyte (1814-1899). Histoire Naturelle des Lépidoptères Exotiques. Paris: Pauquet, 1835.
8vo (225 x 142 mm). Half-title, engraved title, 81 hand-colored engraved plates. (Plate 51 erroneously numbered "53" as usual, a few leaves with pale dampstain in lower margin, scant spotting or light offsetting.) Contemporary half blue morocco gilt (light wear to extremities, upper portion of hinges just starting). FIRST EDITION. Lucas, who studied fauna on a scientific expedition to Algeria from 1839-1842, was an assistant naturalist at the Musum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. Nissen ZBI 2581.
