Garden pests in New Zealand and how to control them.
Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, (1944. second edition), Octavo, photographs. More
Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, (1944. second edition), Octavo, photographs. More
Wimborne: Intercept Limited, 2005. Octavo, laminated boards. 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
Middlesex: E W Classey, 1971. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Atlantic Books, 2022. Octavo, paperback, The Insect Crisis explores this hidden emergency, arguing that its consequences could even rival climate change. We rely on insect pollination for the bulk of our agriculture, they are a prime food source for birds and fish, and they are a key strut holding up..... More
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1988. Quarto, text illustrations, laminated boards, scarce. World Crop Pests Volume 2B. More
Quarto, colour plates, folding text, publisher's boards. More
Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America, 1969-1972. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, fine set in publisher's cloth. More
Johannesburg: Central News Agency, 1912. Small octavo, photographs. Publisher's quarter cloth and printed boards, some slight wear. More
London: Order of the Trustees, 1910. publisher's cloth, book plate, a fine copy. More
London: Order of the Trustees, 1910. bookplate, small stamp, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Plymouth: James H. Keys, 19031908. Octavo, text illustrations, mixed set with contemporary binder's quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine label, bookplate (vloume one) and publisher's cloth (volume two). More
London: British Museum (Natural History), Octavo, colour plates. Publisher's cloth, neat libray stamp on endpaper, a very good set. More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., (1960. first edition). Octavo, colour plates, dustwrapper. More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1872. Octavo, 132 chromolithographs. Publisher's handsome green blindstamped cloth with gilt moth, a fine set. More
London: Royal Entomological Society of London, 2002. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Hull: Canadian Government Publishing Centre, 1980. Octavo, colour plates, lengthy inscription, publisher's boards. More
Woodstock: The Countryman Press, 1994. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. Many subjects covered in detail, include: Buying a colony of bees; managing bees throughout the seasons; selecting equipment and a good apiary site; preventing swarming; extracting, processing, and selling honey; controlling pests, predators, and diseases; and rearing queen honey..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1939. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Order of the Trustees, 1933. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's boards. More
Greenwich: Australian Entomological Press, 1977. Quarto, wrappers, fine copy. A very useful bibliography and modelled on Musgrave's Bibliography of Australian Entomology. More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2020. Quarto, laminated boards, colour and black and white illustrations, maps, photographs. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Series Volume 13. Allows identification of all of the Australian hawkmoths for the first time and treats species found on mainland Australia, Tasmania and all offshore islands within Australian limits. It..... More
London: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1978. Octavo, photographs, graphs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Symposia of the Royal Entomological Society of London: number nine. More