An accentuated list of British Lepidoptera.
London: John Van Voorst, 1858. Octavo, partly unopened, a fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
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Butterflies and moths at home.
London: Gowans and Gray, 1907. Duodecimo, photographs, softcover. Gowans's Nature Books, number four. More
The history of insects.
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1839. Duodecimo, engraved plates, inscription, publisher's blind stamped cloth. More
List of the specimens of neuropterous insects in the collection of the British museum. Part two: Sialidae- Nemopterides.
London: British Museum, 1853. Duodecimo, publisher's plain blue wrappers. More
Malaysian butterflies: an introduction.
Kuala Lumpur: Tropical Press, (1984. reprint). Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Episodes of insect life.
London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, publisher's decorated gilt cloth. More
Milkweed butterflies: their cladistics and biology. Being an account of the natural history of the Danainae, a subfamily of the Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1984. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Carcasson's African butterflies: an annotated catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical region.
East Melbourne: CSIRO, 1995. Quarto, illustrations, laminated boards. 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
Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature [the insect plate volume only].
Paris: {'an V. de la Republique Francaise, 1797. Quarto, 266 uncoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half morocco and blue papered boards, all edges uncut, a fine copy. Volume eighteen. More
The anatomy of the migratory locust.
London: The Athlone Press, 1953. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Nature's flyers: birds, insects and the biomechanics of flight.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Octavo, black and white photographs, text illustrations. David E. Alexander's fascination with the many animals and plants that have harnessed the air is evident in Nature's Flyers: Birds, Insects, and the Biomechanics of Flight, a detailed account of our current scientific understanding of the..... More
Insect manufactures.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Duodecimo, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's blindstamped cloth. More
Nomads of the wind: the migration of the Monarch butterfly and other wonders of the butterfly world.
London: Papadakis Publisher, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The migration of the Monarch butterfly and other wonders of the butterfly world. More
American insects: a handbook of the insects of America north of Mexico.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, (1985. Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Selected writings of T.C. Schneirla.
San Francisco: W H Freeman and Company, 1972. Quarto, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
The Millennium Atlas of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, tables. This illustrated atlas presents the findings of "Butterflies for the New Millennium", the most comprehensive survey of butterflies ever undertaken in Britain and Ireland. It provides an up-to-date assessment of our butterflies, the habitats they live in, and the threats..... More
The dragonflies of Europe.
Colchester: Harley Books, 1988. Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. The systematic section gives keys to the genera and species, with clear descriptions, and details of biology, flight periods, and distribution of all species found in Europe, with distribution maps showing national boundaries. Descriptions are augmented..... More
Uber den deineren cau der facettenaugen bei neuroptera.
1919. Octavo, double plates 26-33. Quarter calf and marbled boards. Text in German. More
Insects in perspective.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1978. Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, gfine copy in dustwrapper. More
Life in the undergrowth.
London: BBC Books, 2005. Small quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. This beautifully illustrated book gives a rare glimpse into the secret life of invertebrates - bugs, beetles, scorpions and centipedes, mites and mantids, spiders and dragonflies. More
Histoire des insectes nuisibles a la vigne, et particulierement de la pyrale.
Paris: Fortin, Mason et Cie, 1842. Quarto, 23 chromolithographic plates, text illustrations. Contemporary half morocco, some wear, small library sticker on titlepage. More
Butterflies.
Stillwater: Voyager Press, 2006. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. A cultural and natural history of butterflies with stunning photographs. It highlights 40 of the most fascinating butterfly species from around the world. Includes an introduction to physical characteristics and behaviour butterfly-human relations, conservation, and the art of photographing butterflies... More
Recherches sur l'anatomie des Psoques.
Paris: Les Presses Universitaires de France, 1934. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. Text in French. More
Collected works on African Psocoptera.
Paris: Annales des Science Naturelle Zoologie, (1931-1949). Octavo, text illustrations. Binder's cloth, hinges cracked. Eight papers from Revue Francaise E'Entomoligie. More
The Tettigoniidae: biology, systematics and evolution.
Bathurst: Crawford House, 1990. Octavo, illustrations, laminated boards. Includes chapters by various authors on topics such as the evolution of acoustic communication; anti-predator defences; and karyotypes and meiosis. More