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Uppsala: L. M. Hojer, 1752. Octavo, woodcut headpiece and tailpiece, printed title, disbound. More
Uppsala: L. M. Hojer, 1752. Octavo, woodcut headpiece and tailpiece, printed title, disbound. More
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1966. Octavo, text illustrations, maps, signature, wrappers a little grubby. More
London: R. H. Porter, 1890-1892. Octavo, 50 uncoloured plates, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, signatures and a library stamp in each volume, a sound set. More
London: L. Upcott Gill, [1890]. Octavo, colour plates Publisher's decorated cloth, bookplate, a very good copy. More
Amsterdam: Author, [1767. Quarto, one engraved plate (lacking folding plates). Contemporary polished calf, rebacked, bookplates, small library stamp on title page. More
London: Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1865. Octavo, 14 uncoloured plates, some foxing. Contemporary quarter morocco, some wear. More
Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1993. Quarto, photographs, maps, publisher's cloth. More
London: Vintage Books, 2016. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. Much more than just another natural history of butterflies, this book explores the ways in which butterflies delight and inspire us all, naturalists and non-naturalists alike. Beginning with the author's own experience of hunting and rearing butterflies as a boy, Peter Marren..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2020. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The Inside Out of Flies is a look under the bonnet at the astonishing mechanics of fly anatomy. Erica McAlister reveals the engineering miracles embodied in each species of fly and some of the fascinating implications they hold for human technology. Discover..... More
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. This book takes the reader on a journey through a hidden world of snail killers, silly names and crazy sex lives. Entomologist Erica McAlister gets under the wings of these crucial creatures as she ventures into the land of the fly..... 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
Melbourne: The Friends of the Zoo, 1985. Octavo, colour illustrations by Charles McCubbin, softcover. More
Lincoln: Manaaki Whenua Press, 1993. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. More
Saftronics (Pty) Ltd. and the Animal Demography Unit, 2013. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in laminated boards. More
London: Macmillan and Co.Limited, 1895. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900. Octavo, uncoloured lithographic frontispiece. Publisher's cloth, a fine copy. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1958. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations. Publisher's wrappers, partially sunned, inscribed by the author to Edgar Riek. University of California Publications in Entomology. Volume 14, Number two. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, [1964. reprint). Octavo, wrappers, photographs, text illustrations. Signed by the author. University of California Publications in Entomology. Volume 38. More
London: Struik Publishers, (1997. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
London: New Holland, (1988. first edition). Octavo, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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
London: Longmans, Green and Co., (1960. first edition). Octavo, colour plates, dustwrapper. More
Hull: Canadian Government Publishing Centre, 1980. Octavo, colour plates, lengthy inscription, publisher's boards. More