British beetles: their homes and habits.
London: Frederick Warne and Company, 1943. reprint). Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, publisher's printed boards. More
London: Frederick Warne and Company, 1943. reprint). Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, publisher's printed boards. More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2013. Quarto, laminated boards, photographs, text illustrations, The first in what will be a three-volume series presenting a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a relatively under-studied fauna including many unusual and unique lineages found nowhere else in the world. This first volume updates and expands..... 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
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. In this book, noted biologist and firefly expert Sara Lewis dives into the fascinating world of fireflies and reveals the latest discoveries about these beloved insects. From the meadows of New England and the hills of the Great..... More
London: Frederick Warne, 1959. Octavo, colour plates, fine set in slightly worn dustwrappers. The Wayside and Woodland Series. More
London: Kingsbury, Parbury and Allen, 1825. Quarto, one handcoloured engraved plate. Early binder's cloth, title printed wrappers retained, the signature of F. Erasmus Wilson, rare. William Sharp Macleay (1792-1865), son of Alexander Macleay (1767-1848) and cousin of William John Macleay (1820-1891) arrived in Sydney in 1839 and served as a...... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, tables. The Coccinellidae are a family of beetles, known variously as ladybirds or ladybugs. In Britain alone, some 46 species belong to the Coccinellidae family, although only 26 of these are recognisably ladybirds. Composed largely of Professor Michael Majerus' lifetime..... 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
Sydney: Linnean Society of New South Wales, [1885-1896]. Octavo, the signature of Arthur Westley (listed in Musgrave) with his various addresses. Contemporary half morocco, some wear, annotated. More
Lincoln: Manaaki Whenua Press, 1993. octavo, paperback, text illustrations. More
Sydney: The Australian Museum, 1947. Octavo, lacks wrappers. Memoir ten. More
London: Royal Entomological Society of London, 2002. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2007. Quarto, text illustrations, laminated boards. This issue of Journal of Insect Conservation is the first to be dedicated entirely to beetles, and it contains a number of papers, predominantly from outside western Europe, to demonstrate the variety and scope of problems and conservation concerns that surround..... More
London: John Wiley, 2010. Octavo, laminated boards, Beetles, the most diverse group of insects, are often abundant in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. Many species are under threat from human changes to natural environments, and some are valuable tools in conservation, because they respond rapidly to changes that occur. Knowledge of..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2020. Octavo, laminated boards, colour illustrations and photographs. Part of an eight-volume set providing a comprehensive study of the Australian weevils. This volume covers the 11 smaller tribes of the weevil subfamily Entiminae (broad-nosed weevils), which comprises more than 100 genera and 700 described species in Australia..... More
Sydney: Linnean Society, 1869. Octavo, 15 uncoloured plates. Contemporary half calf, plates foxed, inscribed "F. Erasmus Wilson from C. French" The first four parts, see Musgrave (p. 250-252) if wishing to unravel the complexity of publication. More
Ottawa: NRC Research Press, 2006. Octavo, photographs, softcover. This book is a synthesis of both previously published information and abundant new data derived from extensive recent field studies on Galpagos beetles, and is a companion to a previous book on 18 other orders of Galpagos insects. The dynamics and patterns..... More
London: John Wiley and Sons, 2011. Quarto, iIllustrations, laminated boards. This book describes the evolutionary and ecological consequences of reproductive competition for scarabaeine Dung beetles. As well as giving us insight into the private lives of these fascinating insects, this book shows how dung beetles can be used as model..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2013. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. The first volume of a three volume set, this book provides a general introduction to the Australian Cerambycidae with sections on biology, phylogeny and morphology of adult and larvae, followed by the keys to the subfamilies and an overview of the..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2016. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. This second volume of a three on Australian longhorn beetles covers the taxonomy of genera of the Cerambycinae, with comments on natural history and morphology. One hundred and forty-two Cerambycinae genera are diagnosed and described, an illustrated key to their identification..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2019. Quarto, laminated boards, photographs, illustrations. The second in what will be a three-volume series presenting a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a relatively under-studied fauna including many unusual and unique lineages found nowhere else in the world. Volume two contains 36 chapters, providing critical..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs and other illustrations. The third volume of a three volume set, this book provides a general introduction to the Australian Cerambycidae with sections on biology, phylogeny and morphology of adult and larvae, followed by the keys to the subfamilies and an..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2020. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. True ladybirds, classified in the tribe Coccinellini, are easily recognisable by their relatively large and shiny bodies and contrasting colour patterns. They are one of the most widely studied groups of beetles, being of economic importance and used as model..... More