ROMANOFF, Nikolai Mikhailovich (Grand Duke, 1859-1919, editor). Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères. St. Petersburg: 1884-1893.

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ROMANOFF, Nikolai Mikhailovich (Grand Duke, 1859-1919, editor). Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères. St. Petersburg: 1884-1893.

Volumes I-VII only (of 10), 4° (vols.I-VI: 287 x 199mm, vol.VII: 271 x 192mm). 115 plates (112 coloured or hand-coloured, 92 by Castelli after Lang, Rybakoff and others), one folding coloured map in vol.IV. (Some browning, ownership stamps removed from titles, tear to fold of map, the first four plates mounted to size.) Contemporary half morocco (vols.I-VI) or cloth (vol.VII), (joints weak, some rubbing to spines).

Comprises articles in French and German including Les Lépidoptères de la Transcaucasie by Romanoff, Schmetterlinge aus Nord Persien by H. Christoph, Le Pamir et sa faune lépidopterologique by Gregor Grumm-Grshilmailo, and other articles on the lepidoptera of the Amur, Korea, Tibet, and Central Asia by S. Alpheraky, E.L. Ragonot, Dr. O Staudinger and others. Nissen ZBI 4678. (7)

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