Butterflies of Afghanistan is uncommon

is uncommon

The volume remained unfinished until 1875

rewritten and enlarged to include the species treated in the two supplements to that work as well as forms discovered since their publication

The selected images were the most attractive and easily cultivated orchidaceous plants

over marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers and marbled page edges

Butterflies of Afghanistan is uncommonPp. 272, 48 full page fine color plates, 192 text figures 32 are in color. Original blind stamped orange cloth, in the original cloth backed color pictorial slipcase (and in the publishers shipping carton which also has a color pictorial title author label), lg 4to. Text in Japanese but with Latin names and some English phrases used throughout. The volume has high manufacturing standards and is extremely scarce. It is likely the most uncommon 20th