Descriptions and figures of some new Lepidopterous insects, currently from Nepal.
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1846. Octavo, 16 handcoloured engraved plates. Early quarter morocco and marbled boards, a fine copy, very scarce. More
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1846. Octavo, 16 handcoloured engraved plates. Early quarter morocco and marbled boards, a fine copy, very scarce. More
Leipzig: [1850]. Quarto, six handcoloured engraved plates, quarter cloth and marbled boards. Text in German. More
London: A & C Black, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This book looks in detail at the 440 species of European butterflies. Showcasing the stunning macro photography of the authors, this is a photographic field guide with a difference. Detailed text provides information on features such as identification, confusion species..... More
Stuttgart: Erwin Nagele, 1896. Quarto, eight coloured plates. Modern binder's cloth, small library stamp, all edges uncut. More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This book brings together 19 papers on the biogeography, ecology and conservation of the Violet Copper Lycaena helle. Although the focus is on a single butterfly species, this taxon stands as a representative for many endangered species and populations. Thus, this compilation..... More
New York: Abrams, 2015. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations. The American artist and naturalist Titian Ramsay Peale II (1799-1885) had a passion for butterflies and throughout his long life he wrote and illustrated The Butterflies of North America: Whence They Come, Where They Go, and What They Do, an ambitious..... More
London: Williams and Norgate, [no date]. Octavo, photographs, defective dustwrapper. More
London: J. Robson, [1775]. Octavo, coloured frontispiece. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, all edges coloured, a fine copy, very scarce. More
Albury: Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, 2001. Quarto, spirally bound, photographs, softcover. Identification guide no. 37. More
Colchester: Harley Books, 1983. Octavo, colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Volume ten: Noctuidae (part two) and Agaristidae. More
Harmondsworth: Viking, 1984. Octavo, text illustrations, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1976. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Volume one: Micropterigidae-Heliozelidae. More
London: Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 1967. Octavo, publisher's wrappers. More
London: Collins, 1975. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Natural History Society, 1978. Octavo, wrappers. Memoirs of the Hong Kong Natural History Society, number eleven. More
London: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2001. Octavo, inscribed by the authors,softcover. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, volume 132, number 3. More
Harmondsworth: Viking, (1984. reprint). Octavo, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Papadakis Publisher, 2010. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. In this beautifully photographed book, Philip Howse explains how these living tapestries have evolved to repel their principal predators, including birds, lizards, and monkeys. The predators, it is argued, detect their prey by perceiving small details of shape and colour rather than..... More
London: West, Newman & Co., 1898. Quarto, 13 chromolithographic plates (two uncoloured). Publisher's cloth, top edge gilt, bookplate, a fine copy. More
London: Paul Jerrard, [1860]. Octavo, handcoloured lithograph 27cm by 17cm, mounted and framed. Plate 28 from Humphreys, H. Noel. The genera of British moths, [1860]. More
1859. Small quarto, 32 chromolithographs. Publisher's decorated cloth, grubby, contents crisp and sound. More
London: William Smith, 1845. Quarto, TEXT ONLY, LACKS PLATES. Handsome later half blue calf. More
Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 2002. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Pretoria: Buckley and Van Duyn, 1917. Octavo, publisher's printed wrappers, a presentation copy from the author. More
Hong Kong: Government Printer, 1980. Octavo, colour photographs and plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More