[ii], xiv, 633 pages.
Original printed paper wrappers are bound in.
Half leather binding with marbled paper-covered boards; minor shelfwear.
Minor foxing to text, with the most foxing to the title page.
Tiny stain along the bottom edge of the first few pages.
PROVENANCE: Engraved bookplate of Frederick DuCane Godman (1834-1919); Bookplate of [Arthur] Francis Hemming (1893-1964); bookplate of Claude Herbulot (1908-2006); and bookplate of William George Pether.
Seminal entomological work by Russian naturalist Eduard Friedrich Eversmann (1794-1860).
It is a foundational text documenting species of butterflies and moths collected over a span of 25 years, and found in the region between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains.
First edition.