A study of the wings of the ten-Thredinoidea, a superfamily of Hymenoptera.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1906. Octavo, text illustrations, a fine copy in a handsome binder's cloth. More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1906. Octavo, text illustrations, a fine copy in a handsome binder's cloth. 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
Paris: 1909. Octavo, contemporary quarter calf on marbled boards, some wear. Text in French. More
Aylesbury: Shire, 1988. Octavo, softcover, colour photographs, illustrations. Number 25 in the Shire Natural History Series. 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
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829. Octavo, original cloth spine retained and matched with papered boards, modern endpapers, uncut, contents fine and crisp. More
Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1993. Quarto, photographs, maps, publisher's cloth. More
London: Aspect Publications Ltd., (1990. second edition]. Octavo, graphs, dustwrapper. More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, (2015. second edition). Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. Now in its second edition, this book has been thoroughly updated and is now far more comprehensive than the original edition. Containing over 3000 stunning full colour photographs, this book is the perfect single-volume guide to Britain's moths..... More
Pretoria: Department of Agricultural Development, 1990. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, maps, inscription, publisher's boards. More
Orlando: Academic Press, 1985. Octavo, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Petaluma: Pomegranate, 2008. Quarto, colour photographs, good copy in dustwrapper. This book presents the compositions of Christopher Marley: assemblages of real insect bodies that display brilliant colour and otherworldly form. The colours are entirely natural, and to render the reproductions as accurate as possible some have been reproduced with fifth-colour..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 2010. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs and illustrations. WAS $85. A richly-illustrated cultural guide to Britain's insect life, seen through the eyes of writers, musicians, artists and naturalists - from the great Tudor naturalist, Thomas Muffet (father of Little Miss Muffet) to Irvine Welsh's talking tapeworm in..... 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: Entomological Society of Victoria, 2020. Octavo, paperback and CD, colour photographs. This book completes the Noctuoidea and covers the Victorian Noctuidae. The accompanying CD contains over 440 pages of Noctuids, 50 pages of updates for previous MoVs, Full Checklist for MoV9 and full index for the full series (books..... More
Melbourne: Entomological Society of Victoria, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, CD-ROM. Part four in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This part covers the Emeralds and allies. Part one see [stock id 28859], part two [28868, part three [32931], part five..... More
Melbourne: Entomological Society of Victoria, (2017. second edition, reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, CD-ROM. This is the first part in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This handy sized booklet figures the 85 species of Silk moths found in Victoria, Australia..... More
Melbourne: Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, CD-ROM. Part three in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This part covers the Looper caterpillars which are a familiar sight on plants everywhere. Most belong to the geometrid family of..... More
Melbourne: Entomological Society of Victoria, (2009. second edition), 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..... 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
London: Entomological Society of London, 1885. Octavo, colour plates, contemporary binder's cloth. From The Transactions of The Entomological Society of London for the year 1885, with another paper. More
Wellington: Government Printer, 1887. Octavo, 23 chromolithograph plates. Publisher's cloth, a very good copy. 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