Category: Entomology

THE ENTOMOLOGIST - An Illustrated Journal of General Entomology. Volumes 11-12, and Volumes 22 - 30

Price: £250.00

Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co : 1897

Seller ID: 008812

Condition: Very Good

Volumes 11-12 (in one vol, half roan, a bit worn and scuffed, contents slightly loose); Volumes 22 - 30, (in an attractive contemporary half calf and marbled boards, slightly marked, a little foxing internally, but overall very clean and tight). A few plain litho plates and four fine coloured plates - of the Bornean butterfly Ornithoptera trojana, forms of Colias edusa, aberrations in the Genus Vanessa, varieties of Triphaena comes-orbona, and one to accompany Gosse's article on Attacus atlas. [1878 - 1879; 1888 - 1897]. SCARCE. {A heavy set - extra postage will be required}
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Les Metamorphoses

By: Abeloos, Marcel

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Paris, Collection Armand Colin : 1956

Seller ID: 011483

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated with line drawings with in the text, small 12mo, pp 208, very age-toned, a small piece torn from one page margin, otherwise sound, a neat owner's signature on the front endpaper, and his tiny stamp on the half-title and title page, neatly bound in red cloth with the original paper covers bound in.
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Bumblebees

By: Alford, D.V.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Davis-Poynter : 1975

Seller ID: 013936

ISBN-13: 9780706701388

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp xii, 352, fore-edge foxed, slightly used internally, brown cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, but is slightly used around the edges.
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Plant Pests

By: Alford, David V.

Price: £36.50

Publisher: London, Collins : 2011

Seller ID: 018123

ISBN-13: 9780007338498

Binding: Cloth

Condition: New

First edition. NEW. Well illustrated, large octavo, pp x, 500; the dustwrapper is not faded and is not price-clipped, STILL ENCLOSED IN THE PUBLISHER'S CELLOPHANE. [Ever since man first cultivated plants and grew crops, insects, mites and other creatures have risen to prominence as pests, but it is only throughout the last two centuries that we have come to study them in detail. Drawing on a lifetime of experience, David V. Alford provides a fascinating account of the natural history of the insects and mites that inhabit our farms and gardens, and feed on our cultivated plants. Coverage of pe...
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Gunung Mulu National Park - a management and development plan

By: Anderson, J.A.R.; Jermy, A.C. & The Earl of Cranbrook (et al)

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Royal Geographical Society : 1982

Seller ID: 016896

Binding: Ringbound paperback

Condition: Very Good

Five maps, octavo, pp viii, 327, ringbound, very clean internally, paper covers, very slightly worn.
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Irish Coleoptera - a revised and annotated list

By: Anderson, R; Nash, R. & O'Connor, J.P.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Belfast, : 1997

Seller ID: 008094

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Large slim 8vo, pp 81, paperback, very slightly faded and worn. (Special entomological supplement to The Irish Naturalists' Journal.)
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Horned Beetles - a study of the fantastic in nature.

By: Arrow, Gilbert J.

Price: £16.50

Publisher: Kota Kinabalu, : 2005

Seller ID: 003685

ISBN-13: 9789838121064

15 plain photographic plates, pp viii, 182, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [A welcome reprint of the very scarce 1951 original. Gilbert Arrow (1873-1948) published over 100 papers on Scarabaeoids during his career. He is probably best known for his four-volume work on Lamellicorns in the Fauna of British India series and this synoptic book on Horned Beetles. Although trained as an architect, he gave this up after five years to obtain a position on the staff of the Department of Zoology of the British Museum of Natural History in London in 1896. From this time on until his death, he devoted h...
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The Dragonflies of Europe

By: Askew R.R.

Price: £21.50

Publisher: Great Horkesley, Colchester, Harley Books : 1988

Seller ID: 012859

ISBN-13: 9780946589104

Binding: Cloth

Condition: As New

Well illustrated with 31 colour plates, many line drawings and distribution maps, tall quarto, pp 291, very clean internally, blue cloth in excellent condition, in a dustwrapper showing the very faintest signs of use.
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Discovering Nature in the Maltese Islands

By: Baldacchino, Alfredo E.; Lanfranco, Edwin & Schembri, Patrick J.

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Blata L-Bajda, Merlin Library Ltd : 1990

Seller ID: 013431

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small slim octavo, pp 104, paperback, covers very slightly faded, otherwise a very good copy. SCARCE.
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Grasshoppers and Crickets of Surrey

By: Baldock, David W.

Price: £13.50

Publisher: Pirbright, Surrey Wildlife Trust : 1999

Seller ID: 013665

ISBN-13: 9780952606543

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small slim octavo, pp (6), 111, a very glood copy in a very slightly creased dustwrapper.
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Image for The Brackish-Water Fauna of Northwestern Europe - an identification guide to brackish-water habitats, ecology and macrofauna for field workers, naturalists and students.

The Brackish-Water Fauna of Northwestern Europe - an identification guide to brackish-water habitats, ecology and macrofauna for field workers, naturalists and students.

By: Barnes, R.S.K.

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 1994

Seller ID: 005181

ISBN-13: 9780521455565

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp xvi, 287, fore-edge very slightly marked, topr corners of last few pages very slightly turned, paperback, slight crease to corner of lower cover, otherwise a very good copy.
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Image for Del Mal del Segno (translated by P.J. Yarrow). On the Mark Disease, Calcinaccio or Muscadine, a disease that affects silk worms and on the means of freeing therefrom even the most devastated breeding establishments

Del Mal del Segno (translated by P.J. Yarrow). On the Mark Disease, Calcinaccio or Muscadine, a disease that affects silk worms and on the means of freeing therefrom even the most devastated breeding establishments

By: Bassi, Agostino

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Ithaca, American Phytopathological Society : 1958

Seller ID: 019604

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Originally published in Lodi, Italy, 1835. Portrait frontispiece, slim octavo, pp xvi, 50, original black cloth, a very good copy. {Phytopathological Classics 10}. [ Agostino Bassi, sometimes called de Lodi (1773 - 1856), was an Italian entomologist. He preceded Louis Pasteur in the discovery that microorganisms can be the cause of disease (the germ theory of disease). He discovered that the muscardine disease of silkworms was caused by a living, very small, parasitic organism, a fungus that would be named eventually Beauveria bassiana in his honor. In 1844, he stated the idea that not only an...
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Irish Entomology - the first hundred years

By: BEIRNE, Bryan P.

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Belfast, : 1985

Seller ID: 008095

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large slim 8vo, pp 40, an impression mark on the margin of the first few pages, paperback, very slightly worn but really a very good copy. [Special entomological supplement to the Irish Naturalists' Journal.] Postage will be reduced.
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The Dragonflies of Sussex: A Guide to Their Distribution and Conservation

By: Belden, P.A.; Downer, V.J.; Luck, J.C.; Prendergast, H.D.V.; Sadler, D.

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Essedon Press for the Sussex Group : 2004

Seller ID: 016859

ISBN-13: 9780952554912

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, small slim quarto, pp 80, very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly worn. but a good copy.
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Biology of the Integument, Volume 1 - Invertebrates

By: Bereiter-Hahn, J.; Matoltsy, A.G. & Richards, K. Sylvia (editors)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Springer-Verlag : 1984

Seller ID: 010902

ISBN-13: 9780387130620

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large thick 8vo, pp xvi, 841, hardback, the slightest signs of use to the cover, but really a very good copy throughout. [A heavy book - extra postage may be necesary.]
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The Nigerian Butterflies. Part 1 : Papilionidae. Part 2: Pieridae and Danaidae. Part 5: Nymphalida, section s. Part 6: Acraeidae

By: Boorman, John & Roche, Patrick

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Nigeria, Ibadab University Press

Seller ID: 014643

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1957 - 1973. Illustrated with many black and white plates, large octavo, very clean internally, paperbacks, the slightest signs of use to the covers.
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A Guide to Lanternflies of Borneo

By: Bosuang, Steven; Audibert, Cedric; Porion, Thierry & Chan, C.L.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Kota Kinabalu, : 2017

Seller ID: 012511

ISBN-13: 9789838121743

Binding: Pictorial laminated boards

Condition: New

Very well illustrated, small slim octavo, pp (6), 120, a very good new copy in dustwrapper. [The lanternflies are strikingly attractive insects belonging to the bug family Fulgoridae, adorned with bizarre ornamentation and colours. Surprisingly, although there is a great deal of interest in collecting lanternflies worldwide, there is no general book published on these amazing insects until now. Borneo - one of the world?s most exciting biodiversity hotspots - is renowned for its spectacular species richness residing in evergreen tropical rain forests, home also to a myriad of insects, includin...
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A Guide to the Beetles of Borneo

By: Bosuang, Steven; Chung, Arthur Y.C. & Chan, C.L.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Kota Kinabalu, : 2017

Seller ID: 012512

ISBN-13: 9789838121729

Binding: Pictorial laminated boards

Condition: New

Well illustrated, octavo, pp (6), 244, pictorial laminated boards, a very good new hardback copy in dustwrapper. [Beetles are certainly important to study if we are to understand the diversity and ecology of insect fauna in various tropical habitats. Although somewhat diverse and ubiquitous in terrestrial habitats, they are less commonly encountered than moths, butterflies and ants. This is mainly because more than 95% of beetles are less than a centimetre long and they are often not found in swarms as one species like ants. Many are only active at night. Borneo?s mesmerising natural biodivers...
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The Psychic Life of Insects

By: Bouvier, E.L. (translated by L.O. Howard)

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin : 1922

Seller ID: 016758

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

A few small figures in the text, small octavo, pp xviii, 377, fore-edge slightly marked, otherwise clean internally, front and rear hinges wrinkled, black cloth dull and a little worn, rather bleached and marked.
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The Natural Environment of the Inner Hebrides

By: Boyd, John Morton & Bowes, D.R. (editors)

Price: £21.50

Publisher: The Royal Society of Edinburgh : 1983

Seller ID: 012675

Binding: Paperback

Condition: As New

Illustrated, large thick octavo, pp xvi, 648, very clean internally, paperback, a very good copy. SCARCE. A heavy book - postage may need to be increased if sending overseas. {Royal Society of Edinburgh Proceedings, Section B, Volume 83}. [Introduction, physical environment, marine and freshwater environment, vegetation and flora, evolution and fauna, land use and natural resources. Authors include A.J. Kerr, A.G. Bramwell, Colin Welch, M.A. Ogilvie, R.J. Berry, Francis Rose, H.J.B. Birks etc].
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