New Zealand moths and butterflies (Macro-Lepidoptera).
London: West, Newman & Co., 1898. Quarto, 13 chromolithographic plates (two uncoloured). Publisher's cloth, top edge gilt, bookplate, a fine copy. More
London: West, Newman & Co., 1898. Quarto, 13 chromolithographic plates (two uncoloured). Publisher's cloth, top edge gilt, bookplate, a fine copy. More
Sydney: Collins, 1975. Octavo, photographs. Minor foxing to dustwrapper, otherwise a fine copy. More
Washington: Smithsonian, 1973. Quarto, colour frontispiece, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Jacksonville: New World Publications, (2003. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
London: Paul Jerrard, [1860]. Octavo, handcoloured lithograph 27cm by 17cm, mounted and framed. Plate 28 from Humphreys, H. Noel. The genera of British moths, [1860]. More
Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1909. Octavo, monochrome plates, text illustrations, lacks free front endpaper otherwise a crsip copy in the publisher's cloth. More
London: Dulau and Co., 1904. Octavo, Publisher's brown cloth, cancelled library stamp otherwise a fine copy. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. A geologist and a supporter of Darwinian theory, Frederick Wollaston Hutton (1836-1905) emigrated to New Zealand in 1866. There became Professor of Biology at Canterbury College and won awards both in Britain and Australasia for his work on the..... More
Sydney: Australian Museum, 2020. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. All endemic and introduced species of Lord Howe Island are collected together for the first time in this illustrated pocket guide. More
London: Methuen, (1925. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's worn cloth, rebacked with new endpapers. One of the classics of entomological literature, the first edition is rarely seen and usually, like this copy, in mediocre condition. More
London: Methuen, (1949. fourth edition). Octavo, text illustrations, owner's stamp, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Octavo, uncoloured plates, typescript list of 13 papers (primarily Records of the Australian Museum) Contemporary binder's cloth, the stamp of F. A. Singleton, extensively annotated. More
New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Take a close-up look into a world you cannot see with the naked eye. Bugs are usually so small that we hardly notice them, let alone think of them as living beings. But call upon the magnifying glass, and a shapeless..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations, graphs. When we enter the world of venom, we enter the realm of one of the most diverse, versatile, sophisticated and deadly biological adaptations ever to have evolved on Earth. Since it first appeared in ancient jellyfish and sea anemones..... More
Monterey: Sea Challengers, 1996. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Berkeley: 1975. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy dustwrapper. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1865. Octavo, 20 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's cloth, very good copy. More
London: John Van Voorst, 1850. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, a fine copy in publisher's blue cloth. More
Cambridge: [Cambridge] University Press, 1956-1968. Octavo, very good set in dustwrappers. More
Sydney: University of Sydney, (1918. reprint). Octavo, library stamps, publisher's cloth. More
Glasgow: Harper Collins Publishers, 2010. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Insects are the most extreme organisms on Earth and, despite their diminutive size, they wield inordinate power. With the exception of the polar icecaps, every terrestrial ecosystem on earth is colonized by them, and they account for almost three-quarters of all..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2012. Octavo, photographs and illustrations, bookplate, softcover. Reaktion Animal Series. Lots of insects suck blood, but one species above all others has a big reputation for its very small size, the mosquito. Due to the diseases they carry and inject, mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths..... More
London: Frederick Warne, 1952. Octavo, colour plates, signature, publisher's cloth. More
Melbourne: Entomological Society of Victoria, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, CD-ROM. Part six in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This part covers the Ghost moths and allies. Part one see [stock id 28859], part two [28868, part three [32931], part..... More
Manchester: Siri Scientific Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Because of its transcontinental geography and the great variety of natural habitats and climatic features prevailing throughout most of the Kazakhstan, it is home to a high diversity of different insect species. However, most of Kazakhstan's insects have been poorly studied..... More