East Melbourne: CSIRO, 1995. Quarto, laminated boards, illustrations. WAS $140. This book deals with about 20% of the world butterfly fauna and is divided into three main sections - biology, biogeography and catalogue. It also includes a gazetteer and list of regional works as well as a bibliography. More about Carcasson's African butterflies: an annotated catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of...

London: Papadakis Publisher, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. WAS $65. The migration of the Monarch butterfly and other wonders of the butterfly world. More about Nomads of the wind: the migration of the Monarch butterfly and other wonders of the butterfly world

London: Abrams, 2006. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. A photographic book on butterflies and moths. It captures the metamorphosis from caterpillar to winged adults as well as the vast diversity of butterflies. More about Butterflies of the world

London: Granta, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Butterflies animate our summers but the 59 butterfly species of the British Isles can be surprisingly elusive. Some bask unseen at the top of trees in London parks; others lurk at the bottom of damp bogs in Scotland. A few survive for months... More about The butterfly isles: a summer in search of our Emperors and Admirals

Pittsburgh: St. Lynn's Press, 2017. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. Every fall, spectacular orange and black clouds of monarch butterflies fill the skies as they migrate from across North America to Central Mexico. West Coast populations make a similar though much shorter trip to coastal California. The National Wildlife Federation... More about Monarch: saving our most-loved butterfly

Portland OR: Timber Press, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations. Can gardening change the world? It certainly can when it comes to butterflies. Butterflies are in danger, but everyone who has a garden can do their part to make a difference. Gardening for Butterflies is an optimistic call to... More about The Xerces Society gardening for butterflies: how you can attract and protect beautiful,...

Chicago: University of Chicago, 2003. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. In Butterflies: ecology and evolution taking flight, the world's leading experts synthesize current knowledge of butterflies to show how the study of these fascinating creatures as model systems can lead to deeper understanding of ecological and evolutionary patterns and... More about Butterflies: ecology and evolution taking flight

Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2016. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations, maps. As biologically fascinating as they are beautiful, butterflies are a pleasure to watch and an important group of invertebrates to study. In the twelve years since the first edition, the volume of discoveries and changes in information... More about The complete field guide to butterflies of Australia

London: Heinemann, 1982. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about Butterflies and moths in Britain and Europe

Melbourne: CSIRO, 1997. Octavo, text illustrations. Mongraphs of Australian Lepidoptera, volume five. This is the second of a three volume series revising the entire Australian fauna of Oecophorinae and includes three major groups of genera, the Chezala Walker, Philobota Meyrick and Eulechria Meyrick groups. This revision covers 84 genera, comprising... More about Oecophorinae genera of Australia, [volume] 2. The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups...

Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. A compact and portable photographic guide to the 280 species of butterflies and dragonflies most likely to be encountered in Sri Lanka. It is also an excellent book for residents and visitors to learn about the commoner butterflies and dragonflies before... More about A naturalist's guide to the butterflies and dragonflies of Sri Lanka

London: British Library, 2010. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour and black and white illustrations. This book is the first to trace the 400-year history of books about British butterflies. From Thomas Moffett's "The Theatre of Insects of 1634", through to the mass of modern-day guides and scientific works, some 600 titles are... More about British butterflies: a history in books

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Large octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, text illustrations and diagrams. WAS $135. This book lays out the insights into population biology, ecology and conservation biology that can be gained through investigation of a judiciously chosen model system, the populations of checkerspot butterflies that Ehrlich and colleagues... More about On the wings of Checkerspots: a model system for population biology