Board of Agriculture and Fisheries: leaflets (numbers 1 to 100).
London: Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1905. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's quarter cloth and printed boards. More
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Miscellania.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1972-1975. Octavo, softcover. A collection of miscellaneous articles, primarily on invertebrates. More
The Victorian naturalist: the journal and magazine of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria.
Melbourne: Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, 1885-1992. Octavo, Binder's brown cloth with title label, with title pages and wrappers retained, an excellent set, very scarce (NOT AS PICTURED). The leading names of colonial Australian natural history contributed heavily to "Vic. Nat", the most important of all Australian field naturalist journals..... More
A classification of the living Mollusca: assembled by Kay Cunningham Vaught.
Philadelphia: American Malacologists, 1989. Octavo, publisher's cloth. More
The best of The Nautilus: a Bicentennial anthology of American conchology.
Philadelphia: American Malacologists, 1976. Quarto, Publisher's full brown morocco, marbled endpapers, some spotting, decorated morocco slipcase, limited to (probably) 100 copies, inscribed by R. Tucker Abbott for George Rayner. More
American seashells.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, (1968. reprint). Quarto, color plates, text illustrations, tape marks, very good copy in dustwrapper. 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.
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
Birdscaping Australian gardens: using native plants to attract birds to your garden.
London: Penguin Group, 2015. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, text illustrations. A beautifully illustrated how-to book for attracting a wide variety of birds and butterflies to your garden by providing shelter, nesting sites, fruit, seeds, nuts, and nectar. The detailed directory and unique planting calendars included show you how to..... More
A natural history of spiders, and other curious insects.
London: John Tilly, 1736. Quarto, 53 uncoloured copper engraved plates. Contemporary full mottled calf, expertly rebacked, all edges coloured, a very good copy. More
Tasmanian Odonata.
Sydney: Fauna of Tasmania Committee, 1979. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. Fauna of Tasmania Handbook no. 1. More
Nomads of the wind: the migration of the Monarch butterfly and other wonders of the butterfly world.
Winterbourne: Papadakis Publisher, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The migration of the Monarch butterfly and other wonders of the butterfly world. More
The dragonflies of Europe.
London: 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
Dragonflies of Europe.
London: Harley Books, 2004. Quarto, colour illustrations, maps, creased softcover. Comprising 124 species of resident damselfly (Zygoptera) and dragonfly (Anisoptera), illustrated on the 30 plates of 219 colour figures. In most cases, both sexes as well as important variants are depicted, all enlarged. This is the only book in English..... More
Silkworms.
Sydney: Robert Dey, 1945. Octavo, wrappers. More
Australian arachnology.
Sydney: The Australian Entomological Society, 1988. Octavo, photographs, softcover. The Australian Entomological Society, Miscellanous Publication, number five. More
British Hymenoptera.
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1923. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's boards. More
Reproductive behaviour of insects: individuals and populations.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1991. Octavo, photographs, laminated boards. More
British water beetles: volume three.
London: Ray Society, 1958. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
Britain's hoverflies: an introduction to the hoverflies of Britain and Ireland.
New Jersey: 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..... More
The illustrated atlas of wildlife.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Quarto, colour photographs, illustrations, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Have you ever seen an antelope the size of a cat, or a frog bigger than a lapdog? What kinds of animals thrive in the Sahara? Earth is full of incredible creatures, all specially adapted..... More
Butterflies of the world.
New York: 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
The butterfly isles: a summer in search of our Emperors and Admirals.
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
Identifying British insects and arachnids: an annotated bibliography of key works.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Octavo, fine copy in laminated boards. A reference work providing an annotated bibliography of key works on insect groups. It provides descriptions of all groups, the most useful and up-to-date references for each and notes on their coverage and relevance. Also contains a chapter on..... More
Royal Entomological Society book of British insects.
Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, 2011. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in laminated boards. 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..... More