Author: Barnes, W. et al.
Title: Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America. Volumes I-V.
Description: 1911-1924 Five volumes (in six - complete). 226, 250, 296, [2], 478, [3], [4], 199 p., 7, 4, 1, 6, 27, 5, 21, 7, 9, 4, 2, 33, 40, 1 plates, half cloth with marbled boards. Library stamps, and small bump in top right corner of volume one, else a good set. William Barnes had perhaps the largest private collection of North American Lepidoptera, with about 480.000 specimens including 1950 holotypes, it is now housed in the Smithsonian. Five volumes were published, all are rare now.

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