The Butterflies of North America: Titian Peale's Lost Manuscript

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UPC:
9781419717840
Binding:
Hardcover
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Publication Date:
9/1/2015
Release Date:
9/1/2015
Author:
American Museum of Natural History
Language:
english
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Product Overview

The American artist and naturalist Titian Ramsay Peale II (17991885) had a passion for butterflies, and throughout his long life he wrote and illustrated an ambitious and comprehensive manuscript. The book, along with a companion volume on caterpillars, was never published, and it resides today in the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Now Peales color plates, lovingly prepared for the printer by the artist more than 100 years ago, will be published for the first time in this beautiful volume. At last, Peales life work, equivalent in scope and beauty to Audubons Birds of North America, will be available to a wide audience. The book includes a foreword by Ellen V. Futter and text by Kenneth Haltman and David A. Grimaldi that describes the art and science Peale brought to his extraordinary work.

Also see: The Butterflies of Titian Ramsay Peale Notecards (978-1-4197-1806-9), The Butterflies of Titian Ramsay Peale Journal (978-1-4197-1805-2), and The Butterflies of Titian Ramsay Peale 2016 Wall Calendar (978-1-4197-1754-3)