The conservation status of Australia's insect fauna.
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1978. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1978. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2005. Octavo, illustrations, laminated boards. Proceedings of the Conference Held in UFZ Leipzig, 5-9th of December, 2005. Contains abstracts on a variety of issues concerning the ecology and conservation of butterflies. More
London: Stacey International, 2007. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Arabia straddles three of the world's major biogeographical regions, ensuring a butterfly fauna of extraordinary complexity and interest. Over 140 species of butterflies flourish in this apparently inhospitable environment, many of them spectacularly beautiful and some of them..... More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1987. Octavo, More
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1994. Quarto, colour illustrations, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. A detailed account of Australia's beetle fauna, giving a brief cover of the 117 families of beetles and with general information about their anatomy, general biology, life history and economic significance. It is estimated that there are..... More
Buisson: NAP Editions, 2006. Octavo, colour illustrations, text illustrations, maps., laminated boards. Volume one of four. This guide covers around 500 moths (Lepidoptera, Heterocera) traditionally gathered under general names of Saturnids, Lasiocampids, Hawkmoths, Tiger moths, Swifts and so on. Arctiidae, Sphingidae, Lasiocampidae, Saturniidae, Endromidae, Lemoniidae, Bombycidae, Drepanidae, Axiidae, Limacodidae, Notodontidae..... More
Melbourne: Entomological Society of Victoria, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, CD-ROM. Part two in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This handy sized booklet features 150 species of Tiger moths in six families found in Victoria, Australia. Species are set to..... More
Sydney: Linnean Society of New South Wales, Octavo, Publisher's printed wrappers, interleaved, anotations, spots throughout. The classic taxonomy of Australian coleoptera. Masters became assistant curator at the Australian Museum in 1864 but left in 1874 to become curator of the MacLeay Collection, a position he held until his death in..... More
Sydney: Linnean Society of New South Wales, Octavo, plain wrappers, interleaved, anotations, spots throughout. The classic taxonomy of Australian coleoptera. Masters became assistant curator at the Australian Museum in 1864 but left in 1874 to become curator of the MacLeay Collection, a position he held until his death in 1912..... More
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1976. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Brisbane: UQP, (1984. second edition), Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co.,1909. Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher's colour printed cloth, expertly rebacked preserving a good remnant of the printed spine, new endpapers a sound copy. More
Melbourne: Nelson, (1971. first edition). Small folio, colour illustrations by the author, inscription by the author, very good copy in dustwrapper. A handsome book and one of the better Australian butterfly books. The author was the grandson of Frederick McCubbin. More
Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, (1945. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate of Roy Cooper, signed by the autho, fine copy in near fine dustwrapper, scarce in this condition. More
Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of NSW, (1944. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate. More
Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, (1945. second edition]. Octavo, text illustrations, lacks dustwrapper. More
Sydney: The Australian Museum, 1947. Octavo, lacks wrappers. Memoir ten. More
London: New Holland, (1988. first edition). Octavo, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Struik Publishers, (1997. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Cambridge MA: The Belknap Press, 2006. Small quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Features over 100 large-format photographs of caterpillars, which document the dizzying variety of shapes, vivid colours, and cryptic markings among these species. This book focuses on how their features figure in their behaviour and ecology, and..... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Octavo, colour photographs, paperback. Every bright Monarch butterfly or striking luna moth started out in a far subtler form of nature's mosaic, a humble caterpillar. It is this early stage of life - crafted by natural selection into machines for converting a vast array..... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Oblong format, colour photographs, softcover Walking a forest trail in Costa Rica, a visitor might be struck by the sight of an iridescent blue morpho butterfly fluttering ahead in the filtered daylight, or an enormous silk moth, as magnificently patterned and subtly colored as..... More
Greenwich: Australian Entomological Press, 1977. Quarto, wrappers, fine copy. A very useful bibliography and modelled on Musgrave's Bibliography of Australian Entomology. More
London: Staples Press, c.1936. Octavo, 18 (12 coloured) plates. More
Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1932. Octavo, binder's cloth, bookplate, a very good copy. An excellent bibliography with very useful biographical notes of important authors. More