Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, (1950-1952). Small octavo, colour plates, three volumes bound into one, wrappers retained, binder's cloth, spine sunned, signature, fine copy. In Swedish. Volume one: Dagfjärilar, svärmare och spinnare. Volume two: Nattflyn. Volume three: Mätare, oäkta spinnare m. fl. More
Glenside: Balaban, 1983. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Cambridge MA: Perseus Publishing, 2003. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. A delightful look at the science of butterflies -and our obsession with them- by an acclaimed nature writer. Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, butterflies..... More
Osaka: Hoikusha Publishing, 1960. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, chipped dustwrapper and slipcase. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1902. Quarto, uncoloured frontispiece, two coloured plates. Publisher's cloth, a neat library stamp on the title pages, otherwise a fine crisp copy. More
Gillingham: British Wildlife Publishing, (2013. reprint). Octavo, spirally bound, plastic covers, colour illustrations. This is a great practical solution for every moth enthusiast. The guide has all the illustrations of the classic "Field Guide to Moths of Great Britain and Ireland" but in a portable wiro-bound format with concise descriptions..... More
Dallas: BenBella Books, 2010. Folio, colour photographs, map, fine copy in dustwrapper. Each September, millions of Monarch butterflies, each weighing only a few grams, begin a journey of up to 2,800 miles from Canada and the Northeast to Transverse Neovolcanic Mountains, 150 miles southwest of Mexico City. The Monarch is..... More
Bern: Iris Books, 1951. Large octavo, 12 colour plates, fine copy, paperback. Foreword by Hermann Hesse, text in German. Exotic butterflies. More