Butterflies of North and South America mb-height 1554 Disraeli is about to style

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Plate 5 from the book Curiosities of glass making with details of the processes and productions of ancient and modern ornamental glass manufacture by Apsley Pellatt (David Bogue

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Butterflies of North and South America mb-height 1554 Disraeli is about to styleTwo varieties of butterfly, numbered 4 5. Figure 4 lower surface of Papilio amulius [the Belus swallowtail, Battus belus, a native of South America]. Figures 5 6 upper and lower surfaces of Papilio sesonia [the Southern dogface, Zerene cesonia, a native of North and South America and the Caribbean]. The insects shown were part of the collection of Johann Christian Gerning (1745 1802). The accompanying text states that 'under the immediate care and