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
Canelones: Naturalia Scientific Editions, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, black and white photographs, line drawings, map. This book aims to provide students and the scientific world with a collection of knowledge relating to methods and capture techniques. This book offers a brief summary of the physical and structural characteristics of... More
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London: British Museum (Natural History), 1929. Octavo, eleven uncoloured plates. Publisher's blue cloth, a few flecks, an institutional library stamp on title page, otherwise a fine copy. Complete in seven parts. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Octavo, black and white photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The author explains the physical basis of flight with sharp prose and clear diagrams. Drawing upon bats, birds, insects, pterosaurs, and even winged seeds, he details the basic operating principles of wings and... More
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
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1900. Octavo, one map, 7 chromolithographs (four birds by Keulemans, three mammals by Smit) and 15 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's brown cloth, British Museum presentation bookplate, a fine crisp copy, very scarce in this condition. Wood p. 193. More
London: Papadakis Publisher, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. WAS $65. The migration of the Monarch butterfly and other wonders of the butterfly world. More
CSIRO, 2000. Octavo, dustwrapper, Based on a collection of papers presented at the Fourth International Hymenoptera Conference. More
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
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
Princeton: Princeton University Press/WILDGuides, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A beautifully illustrated photographic field guide to all the genera of hoverflies found in Britain, focusing on the species most likely to be identified. Accessible and designed to appeal to a wide audience, the book contains more than 500 remarkable... More
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
London: Granta, 2010. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. 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
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
London: John Wiley and Sons, 2011. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. This book is the only modern systematic account of all 558 families of British insects, covering not just the large and familiar groups that are included in popular books, but even the smallest and least known. It is beautifully... More
San Diego: Academic Press, 1999. Quarto, colour photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. A comprehensive work covering the 219 species in five families that have been described from Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has a marvellously rich and diverse butterfly fauna, all contained in a relatively... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Small octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Birds and insects are nature's premier architects, using a dizzying array of talents to build functional homes in which to live, reproduce, and care for their young. Recycling sticks, branches, grass, and mud to construct their shelters, they are... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Oblong format, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. From tiny ruby-throated hummingbirds to the majestic red-tailed hawk, this book examines the many creatures that commute on the Mississippi Flyway as part of an annual migration. This magnificent migrational dance takes place every year in Chicagoland, yet it... More
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
Marlborough: Crowood Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Insect photography is both a challenging and rewarding art. If an image is well shot it can yield stunning results, which can aid study and enhance enjoyment of the natural world. Through introducing insects and their behaviour, it advises on when and... More
United Kingdom: Thames and Hudson, 1956. Octavo, publisher's cloth, colour plates, line drawings. Lacks dustwrapper, sunned spine. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Quarto, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, line drawings. The cockroach is truly an evolutionary wonder. This definitive volume provides a complete overview of suborder Blattaria, highlighting the diversity of these amazing insects in their natural environments. Beginning with a foreword by E. O. Wilson... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings. New Naturalist 120. A detailed and up-to-date account of the behaviour and ecology of grasshoppers and crickets. In this latest New Naturalist volume, Ted Benton offers a comprehensive account of the appearance, variations, behaviour, habitat, life-cycles and distribution of... More
Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This easy-to-use, fully comprehensive identification guide to the 158 butterflies found in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, Belgium, Netherlands and the Baltics is perfect for amateur naturalists. High-quality photographs are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include common and scientific name, wingspan, distribution... More
Exeter: Pelagic Publishing, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and line drawings. In Britain and Ireland there are about ten times more species of solitary bee than bumblebee and honeybee combined, yet the solitary bees tend to be ignored and we know much less about them. They are a fascinating, attractive... More