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Hill
House Publishers (Melbourne & London) are proud to announce:
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The
first inexpensive and sumptuously illustrated book by Bernard d’Abrera
(arguably the world’s best-known Lepidopterist)
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WORLD
BUTTERFLIES
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PRICE
GPB £18.50 + P&P
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Laminated
soft cover Dimensions: 11” x 8.25” (portrait) Weight: 800 grms 272 pages,
(4-colour throughout)
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ISBN
0-947352-46-5
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.........This
work is a convenient, portable field-guide and primer to Bernard d’Abrera’s
larger and world-famous series Butterflies of the World (20 volumes),
based on the peerless collections of the British Museum (Natural History)
(now known as Natural History Museum) in London.
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.........The 16-page authoritative Introduction treats the reader to a concise description of the biology and behaviour of butterflies, superbly illustrated with typically breathtaking photographs of living butterflies in nature, for which Bernard d’Abrera has long been justifiably renowned. .........The Catalogue section of 150 exquisite colour plates, comprises over 6,400 specimens, married to a brief but authoritative text showing world distribution and basic biological and up-to-date taxonomic information. This sumptuous book is essential for taxonomists, field workers, conservationists and all those (including artists and designers) interested in the Natural History of the Lepidoptera. |
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This
is a textually simplified and highly portable version of the now-famous
Concise Atlas of Butterflies of the World, published in 2001.
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