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A Selection of Butterfly Books from the Library of T.G. Howarth together with other related titles
T.G. HOWARTH (1914-2015) was a British entomologist at the Natural History Museum in London. During the Second World War he enlisted in the Royal Medical Corps, and in 1941 was posted to Singapore with the mission of finding and destroying the breeding grounds of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Partly through his efforts, Singapore became malaria free, but in 1942 when the British army surrendered to the Japanese, Howarth was taken prisoner. He spent three years as a Japanese prisoner of war, first in the notorious Changi jail in Singapore and later, in a forced labour camp in Jinsen, Korea. Howarth survived the insidious ‘war against boredom, starvation pestilence, and death’ by engaging in ‘prison camp entomology’. During his internment he discovered new species, collected 1,115 butterflies, 347 moths and many other insects.
After the war, Howarth started building strong ties with the Japanese lepidopterist community. He became an authority on Japanese butterflies, and the Japanese in their turn honored him with life membership of their Lepidopterological Society, as well as naming a new genus of hairstreak butterfly - Howarthia - after him.
Howarth’s life-long interest in Japanese butterflies is reflected in the present collection featuring Japanese books, mainly signed presentation copies, as well as correspondence with Japanese colleagues. He used books as repositories for his correspondence with authors, colleagues, researchers and publishers, and this material – manuscript and typed letters, photos, telegrams, and various ephemera - is offered together with the books in which they were ‘filed’. Especially noteworthy is the enduring correspondence with Suguru Igarashi, friend, colleague and chairman of the editorial committee of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan.
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by Kurita, S.; Fujioka, T.
Cat No. : 28471, Published : 1993, Illustrations : colour + b/w photos, text figs, distribution maps
Hardback £150.00
Text Japanese with captions to photos also in English. Fine work on this group of Lycaenid butterflies from Japan (Hairstreaks). Photos of living butterflies and set specimens, immature stages and...(more)
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by Shirozu, T.; Hara, A.
Cat No. : 28629, Published : 1960-1962, Illustrations : 120 col plates
Hardback £150.00
Text Japanese....(more)
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by Uchida, H.
Cat No. : 28483, Published : 1999, Illustrations : col + b/w photos, maps
Hardback £220.00
Text Japanese. Fine colour photos of the life stages, food plants and habitats of 25 species. ...(more)
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by Hishikawa, N.
Cat No. : 31317, Published : 2003, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £50.00
Text Japanese/English....(more)
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by Fujioka, T.
Cat No. : 31328, Published : 1972, Illustrations : 4 col plates, b/w photos, maps
Paperback £22.00
Text Japanese with scientific names in Latin....(more)
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by Howarth, T.G.
Cat No. : 8183, Published : 1977
Paperback £10.00
Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.), Vol. 36(3)...(more)
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by Lewis, H.L.
Cat No. : 30542, Published : 1974, Illustrations : 208 col plates
Hardback £50.00
1st edition ...(more)
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by Fujioka, T.
Cat No. : 28647, Published : 1975, Illustrations : 137 col plates, distribution maps
£650.00
Text in Japanese with scientific names in Latin and descriptions of new species / subspecies also in English....(more)
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by Takahashi, A.; Tanaka, S.; Wakabayashi, M.
Cat No. : 31316, Published : 1991, Illustrations : col photos
Paperback £20.00
Text Japanese. Reprint (first published 1973). Color Nature Guide Series 4 & 5. Illustrated field guide....(more)
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by Woodhouse, L.G.O.
Cat No. : 28663, Published : [1950], Illustrations : col frontis, 57 plates (36 col), maps
Hardback £185.00
2nd complete edition. This edition contains additional information on the immature stages of 41 species not previously known, and seven additional plates showing male genitalia....(more)
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by Koiwaya, S.
Cat No. : 30481, Published : 1985-1989, Illustrations : col+b/w photos, line drawings
Paperback £35.00
Text Japanese with some English. Reprinted from Gekkan-Mushi. Nos 167-216....(more)
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by Rothschild, W.; Jordan, K.
Cat No. : 28653, Published : 1967, Illustrations : 6 b/w plates
Paperback £50.00
Facsimile edition (edited by P.H. Arnaud), first 1906, Novitates Zoologicae Vol. XIII, No. 3: 411-752...(more)
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by Moore, F.
Cat No. : 31524, Published : 1880-1887, Illustrations : 215 hand coloured lithographed plates
Hardback £7,500.00
Rare. Frederic Moore (1830-1907) was originally an artist associated with the East India Museum. The fine drawings in this work "representing about 350 species, of which about 250 are figured in...(more)
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by Leech, J.H.
Cat No. : 15551, Published : 1892-94, Illustrations : 5 plain lithographed plates of views, 43 fine chromolithographed plates, 1 folding col map
Hardback £2,950.00
Rare. Fine chromolithographs drawn by W. Purkiss and printed by W. Greve, Berlin. Nissen ZBI 2414 ...(more)
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by Pryer, H.
Cat No. : 15643, Published : [1935], Illustrations : 10 col plates
Hardback £495.00
Text Japanese and English. Originally published in 3 parts 1886-89. This is a facsimile reprint of 1935. Includes facsimiles of original wrappers and prospectus....(more)
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by Teshirogi, M.
Cat No. : 27383, Published : 1990, Illustrations : 80 col plates, line drawings
£250.00
Text Japanese. Fine colour paintings of immature stages, colour photos of adults ...(more)
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by Teshirogi, M.
Cat No. : 27382, Published : 1997, Illustrations : 66 fine colour plates, 10 pages of line drawings
Hardback £250.00
Text Japanese with English summaries for each species (distribution, habitat, foodplants, breeding, early stages, adult) ...(more)
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by Yokoyama, M.; Wakabayashi, M.
Cat No. : 29861, Published : 1972, Illustrations : 74 col plates, text figs
£40.00
Text Japanese. Reprint of 3rd revised edition (this edition first published 1965) ...(more)
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by Fleming, W.A.
Cat No. : 29775, Published : 1975, Illustrations : 90 col plates
Hardback £65.00
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by Inoue, H.; Okano, M.; Shirozu, T.; Sugi, S.; Yamamote, H.
Cat No. : 16411, Published : [1959], Illustrations : 183 col + 1 b/w plate, text figs
Hardback £150.00
Text Japanese. Scientific names in Latin. Index to scientific names ...(more)
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by Igarashi, S.; Harada, M.
Cat No. : 28286, Published : 2015, Illustrations : 210 col plates
Hardback £195.00
Text Japanese/English. This is the 3rd volume of the series, 'The Life Histories of Asian Butterflies', with detailed descriptions and colour photos of the life histories of 194 species. The work of...(more)
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by De Silva Wijeyeratne, G.
Cat No. : 28597, Published : 2015, Illustrations : 300 col photos
Paperback £9.99
A single, compact and portable photographic guide to the butterflies and dragonflies of Sri Lanka. The emphasis in the 280 species featured is on the commoner species, covering around 90 per cent of...(more)
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by Haahtela, T.
Cat No. : 29933, Published : 2015, Illustrations : col photos
Paperback £26.50
Text Finnish. Numerous colour photos and relatively little text means that this field guide is also useful for those who do not read Finnish. All scientific names are given and where available also...(more)
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by Hoskins, A.
Cat No. : 30612, Published : AUG 2016, Illustrations : 1100 col photos
Hardback £16.99
£19.99 (Save £3.00)
This wonderfully illustrated book is essentially a photographic guide to the diverse butterfly families of the world. It covers 1,000 species from every corner of the globe, encompassing all key...(more)
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by Tshikolovets, V.V.; Kosterin, O.; Gorbunov, P.; Yakovlev, R.
Cat No. : 19687, Published : 2016, Illustrations : 64 col plates
Hardback £129.00
Kazakhstan is one of the largest countries of Eurasia. The western part is in Europe, and the eastern is bordering with China. A variety of natural and climatic conditions led to a large number of...(more)
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by Bascombe, M.J.; Johnston, G.; Bascombe, F.S.
Cat No. : 498, Published : 1999, Illustrations : 222 col plates, col + b/w photos, text figs, drawings
Hardback £50.00
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by van der Poorten, G.; van der Poorten, N.
Cat No. : 29979, Published : 2016, Illustrations : col photos + figs
Hardback £44.99
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This comprehensive work includes all 247 species of butterflies in Sri Lanka. The adults of both sexes are illustrated with colour photographs taken in the field. The immature stages are also...(more)
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