Les papillons. Metamorphoses terrestres des peuples de l'air

Nus, Eugene, 1816-1894, Meray, Antony, 1817-, Varin, Amedee, 1818-1883, Raban, 1795-1870. Entomologie des dames, Corbay, V., wood engraver, Deghouy, L., wood engraver · 1852 · Paris, Gabriel de Gonet, editeur · 30 pictures

Les papillons is an 1852 Paris book by Eugene Nus, Antony Meray and Amedee Varin, written for a general readership as an entomology primer for ladies. Its wood-engraved pictures show insects in plain outline: a centipede, a peacock butterfly, a water beetle, damselflies, a mayfly and flies. A designer could take their clean, labelled scientific diagram style for botanical or natural-history layouts.

Engraving, French · Wood-engraving, French · Bookbinding

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