A guide to collecting butterflies of India: detailing over 600 forms in the text.
London: John Bale, Sons and Danielsson, 1937. Octavo, 25 (one coloured) plates, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, flecked. More
London: John Bale, Sons and Danielsson, 1937. Octavo, 25 (one coloured) plates, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, flecked. More
Great Britain: Graffeg, 2023. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. Andrew Fusek Peters has spent five years travelling round the UK to document and celebrate British butterflies. In Butterfly Safari, he shows butterflies in a new light, capturing close-ups of wing scales and the delicate structure of eggs, eyes and antennae..... More
Lusaka: Anglo American Corporation (Central Africa), 1977. Oblong format, colour plates, tapemarks, laminated boards. More
Colchester: Harley Books, 1993. Quarto, colour illustrations, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Deals with the biology and ecology of the fifty-seven species of Sphingidae that occur in the western Palaearctic - an area bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Sahara desert to the north and Siberia to..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1915. Octavo, photographs, publisher's cloth. More
Deviot: Author, 2013. Octavo, colour photographs and illustrations, softcover. This book is an introduction to glowworms from the order Diptera which includes flies. They are all in the genus Arachnocampa, which has one species in New Zealand and eight species in eastern Australia. More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1993. Octavo, text illustrations, laminated boards. "... One of the most comprehensive and readable accounts of a survey scheme ever published." Antenna. More
Chelmsford: Arlequin Press, (2001. reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, text illustrations, maps. Includes sections on anatomy, life cycle, behaviour, habitats, conservation and more. More
London: Blandford Press, 1988. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Cape Town: Struik Winchester, (1994. second edition). Octavo, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper and slipcase. A superb publication on South African butterflies, extensively revised and updated with detailed information on all the known species and subspecies. More
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1981. Octavo, colour photographs, limp plastic. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, (2014. revised edition). Octavo, paperback, maps. NEW EDITION. Although no one had ever followed North American monarch butterflies on their annual southward journey to Mexico and California, in the 1990s there were certain assumptions about the nature and form of the migration. But to Robert..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1931. second edition), Octavo, hotographs, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Faringdon: E. W. Classey, 1975. Quarto, illustrations, softcover. More
Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1971. Octavo, graphs, signature, dustwrapper. More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1956. Large octavo, text illustrations. More
Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2020. Octavo, colour photographs, bookplate, softcover. This easy-to-use identification guide to the 280 species of butterfly most commonly seen in Australia is perfect for resident and visitor alike. High-quality photographs from Australia's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, size, distribution..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1990. Quarto, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Fauna of the USSR: Diptera. Volume 6, part 6. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations, other illustrations. WAS $110. This entertaining and informative book traces the history of butterfly collection in Britain from the seventeenth century, when the study of natural history had its beginnings. More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2008. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Pensoft Series Faunistica, No. 70. Dragonflies are a beautiful, important and conspicuous component of freshwater, whether still or flowing. They are also important indicators of freshwater quality and condition, which is significant for current and future conservation initiatives in South Africa. The country's..... More
Canada: Environment Australia, 2002. Quarto, softcover. More
The Hague: Springer-Verlag, 2013. Octavo, photographs, illustrations, laminated boards. This survey of one the longest insect conservation campaigns in Australia deals with recovery of one of the most iconic endemic butterflies, the Richmond birdwing, threatened by clearance and fragmentation of subtropical rainforest in eastern Australia and the spread of an..... More
Chatswood: New Holland Publishers, 2015. Octavo, paperback, limp plastic, colour photographs. This book provides a superb introduction to Australia's varied butterfly species. Early chapters explore lifecycle, with stunning images showing the progression from egg through caterpillar and chrysalis stages to adult butterfly. It also covers subjects such as defence mechanisms..... More
Ontario: Key Porter Books, 2005. Quarto, colour photographs, softcover. Features over 300 colour photographs and drawings that reveal these colourful and graceful insects. More
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1913. Octavo, some pencil annotations, publisher's cloth. More