As nature shows them
Subtitle: moths and buterflies of the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains.
By: With over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life, by Sherman F. Denton ....
Publisher: B. Whidden
Published: 1900
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Lepidoptera -- United States.; Nature-printing and nature-prints.
Notes: Originally issued in 8 sections, and published 1897-1900. Pt. I: The moths; part II: The butterflies.
"A limited edition of 500 copies, of wich is copy no. 249."
"The colored plates, or nature prints, used in the work, are direct transfers from the insects themselves, ... the scales of the wings  of  the insects are transfered to the paper while the bodies are printed from engravings and afterwards colored by hand."