British Hymenoptera.
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1923. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's boards. More
INSECTS - Bees, Wasps and Ants
Bolton's catalogue of the ants of the world, 1758-2005.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. CD-ROM, Barry Bolton's "New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World", published in 1995, was the first attempt in more than one hundred years to collect all taxonomic decisions for ants worldwide, including extinct as well as extant taxa. One reviewer said of..... More
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. Quarto, laminated boards, Organized by family group, genus group, and species group, this meticulously detailed but easily used volume is the ultimate resource for myrmecology. Along with Bolton's Identification guide to the ant genera of the world, it will be the essential reference for..... More
A revision of the Leucospidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the world.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1974. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology, Supplement 23. More
A monograph of the British Phytophagous Hymenoptera.
London: Ray Society, 1882-1893. Octavo, 38 chromolithographs and 27 uncoloured plates, a fine crisp set in publisher's cloth. More
Zoological Catalogue of Australia, volume ten. Hymenoptera: Apoidea.
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1993. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
Ant antics.
London: John Murray, 1933. colour plates,contemporary inscription, fine copy in dustwrapper. An eccentric, but handsomely produced, children's book with contributions by luminaries such has Rudyard Kipling, Stanley Baldwin, Baden-Powell and others. More
The world of ants: a science-fiction universe.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1970. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
Pogonomyrmex Harvester Ants: a study of the genus in North America.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1968. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Empires in anarchy.
London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1967. Octavo, text illustrations. More
The social biology of ants.
Boston: Pitman Publishing, 1981. Octavo, photographs and text illustrations, bookplate, laminated boards. More
Wasp farm.
London: George G. Harrap & Co., (1963. first edition), Octavo, text illustrations, lacks dustwrapper. In upstate New York, on eight acres called Wasp Farm, Howard Evans spent hundreds of hours observing a remarkable group of insects - their life cycles, their behavior, their infinite resourcefulness in the business of survival..... More
The ant people.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1927. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
Bumblebees.
London: Collins, 1959. Octavo, illustrations, signature of Doug Dorward, very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist 40. More
Bees: their vision, chemical senses, and language.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1968. reprint). Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
Seed dispersal by ants in a deciduous forest ecosystem: mechanisms, strategies and adaptations.
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. Octavo, text illustrations. More
The natural history of ants.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820. Octavo, handcoloured frontispiece. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, bookplate, all edges coloured. Translated from the French. More
Bee flies of the world: the genera of the family Bombyliidae.
Washington: Smithsonian, 1973. Quarto, colour frontispiece, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
A study of the wings of the ten-thredinoidea, a superfamily of hymenoptera.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1906. Octavo, text illustrations, a fine copy in a handsome binder's cloth. More
La vie des abeilles.
Paris: 1909. Octavo, contemporary quarter calf on marbled boards, some wear. Text in French. More
The natural history of the agricultural ant of Texas: a monograph of the habits, architecture, and structure of pogonomyrmex barbatus.
Philadelphia: J B Lippincott Company, 1880. Octavo, plates, publisher's cloth. More
Adventures among ants: a global safari with a cast of trillions.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. Small quarto, colour photographs, owner's bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, 'the Indiana Jones of entomology', takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In..... More
Catalogue of British Hymenoptera of the family Chalcididae.
London: Order of the Trustees, 1910. publisher's cloth, book plate, a fine copy. More
Catalogue of British Hymenoptera of the family Chalcididae.
London: Order of the Trustees, 1910. bookplate, small stamp, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Ichneumonolia Britannica: the Ichneumons of Great Britain. A descriptive account of the families, genera and species inigenous to the British Islands, together with notes as to classification, localities, habitates, hosts, etc.
Plymouth: James H. Keys, 19031908. Octavo, text illustrations, mixed set with contemporary binder's quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine label, bookplate (vloume one) and publisher's cloth (volume two). More