(ND) later edition. University California Press. Berkeley & Los Angeles. 4to. Pp432. Colour plates of butterflies, paintings, b/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography, pictorial end-papers. Fine in dust-wrapper.
Notes: This is a good history of butterfly collecting, the collectors and their equipment, as well as their contribution to entomological knowledge and literature. In a long career, the author Michael Salmon "became fascinated by his predecessors in this field and, there being nothing in print documenting their lives and activities, he decided to write this book to reveal the personalities behind the many famous, and not so famous names which appear in the British entomological literature". Includes Contributions by Peter Marren and Basil Harley.
