‘The Butterflies of North America; Titian Peale’s Lost Manuscript’

For Titian Ramsay Peale II, the stalking and archiving of butterflies was the very height of outdoors adventure. Now, 130 years after Peale’s death, connoisseurs of moths, butterflies and caterpillars can for the first time revel in his vivid illustrations, meant to accompany his manuscript “The Butterflies of North America, Diurnal Lepidoptera: Whence They Come, Where They Go, and What They Do.”
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