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Die Schmetterlinge Europas [with] Die Raupen der Schmetterlinge Europas

by Spuler, A.

Cat No. : 39254, Published : 1908-1910, Illustrations : 95 + 60 col plates

Hardback £450.00

Text German. Third edition of E. Hofmann's 'Die Gross-schmetterlinge Europas' + second edition of 'Die Raupen der Gross-schmetterlinge Europas'. Illustrated with fine chromolithographic plates. (more)

Moths of the Limberlost

by Stratton-Porter, Gene

Cat No. : 39189, Published : n.d. [1912], Illustrations : col frontis, numerous col + b/w plates, text figs

Hardback £75.00

First published 1912, this is an early undated reissue. Illustrated with water colour and photographic illustrations from life.

Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924) was an American best-selling (more)

British Moths and their Transformations

by Humphreys, H.N.; Westwood, J.O.

Cat No. : 39175, Published : 1843-1845, Illustrations : 124 hand-col plates

Hardback £650.00

First edition.

Freeman, 3952. (more)

A Natural History of British Moths. Vol. I-IV

by Morris, F.O.

Cat No. : 39094, Published : 1861-1870, Illustrations : 132 hand-coloured plates

Hardback £395.00

First edition. Complete in four volumes. Original and best issue; some later editions had inferior colouring.

Nissen ZBI, 2893. (more)

European Butterflies and Moths

by Kirby, W.F.

Cat No. : 39073, Published : 1898, Illustrations : 1 plain + 61 fine hand-col plates

Hardback £300.00

Third edition (first published 1882). (more)

Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa

by Pringle, E.L.L.; Henning, G.A.; Ball, J.B. (Eds)

Cat No. : 39061, Published : 1994, Illustrations : 210 col plates, map

£195.00

This is the 2nd edition (revised and updated) of the 1st definitive work devoted solely to southern African butterflies. It is illustrated with 170 colour plates of the butterflies, as well as 40 (more)

A History of British Butterflies

by Morris, F.O.

Cat No. : 39056, Published : 1904, Illustrations : 79 hand-col plates + 2 plain

Hardback £185.00

Ninth edition. With 79 plates specially corrected for this edition, and all coloured by hand; two additional black- and-white plates showing butterfly collecting equipment. (more)

The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 1, 2, 3,4(1+2), 7(1+2), 9, 10

by Heath, J.; Emmet, A.M.; Langmaid, J.R.

Cat No. : 38347, Published : 1976-2002, Illustrations : col plates, text figs, maps

Hardback £495.00

All published volumes up to 2002 in this standard set on British & Irish Lepidoptera: 1: Micropterigidae - Heliozelidae; 2: Cossidae - Heliodinidae; 3: Yponomeutidae - Elachistidae; 4: Oecophoridae - (more)

Butterflies of the Neotropical Region. Parts 1-7

by d'Abrera, B.

Cat No. : 39303, Published : 1981-1995, Illustrations : col plates

Hardback £750.00

Complete set of of the Neotropical Region from the Butterflies of the World series. All original editions. (more)

British Entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland : containing figures from nature of the most rare and beautiful species, and in many instances of the plants upon which they are found

by Curtis, John

Cat No. : 38147, Published : 1823-1840, Illustrations : 770 hand-coloured plates

Hardback £6,000.00

Rare. All parts/plates are first issues, bound systematically in 8 volumes: Vols I-II Coleoptera, Vol. III Dermaptera, Dictyoptera, Orthoptera, Strepsiptera, Hymenoptera Pt. I, Vol. IV Hymenoptera (more)

British Water Beetles

by Balfour-Browne, F.

Cat No. : 38997, Published : 1940-1958, Illustrations : 5 plates, 266 text figs, 67 maps

Hardback £180.00

Original editions, including the scarce original issue of vol. 1 (bound in the typical Ray Society blue embossed cloth, gt) of which only 450 copies were printed. This is much more difficult to (more)

Die Käfer Mitteleuropas: Systematik 1-14

by Freude, H.; Harde, K.W.; Lohse, G.A.; Lucht, W.A.

Cat No. : 38672, Published : 1965-1994, Illustrations : text figs

Hardback £850.00

Text German. Lacking the final supplementary Vol. 15 of the Systematik series. (more)

Beetles of the World. Vol. 1-30

by Rigout, J.; Allard, V. et al

Cat No. : 39288, Published : 1988-2005, Illustrations : numerous col plates

Hardback £1,800.00

Text bilingual English/French for most volumes, or trilingual English/French/German for the four volumes on Cicindelidae by K. Werner. Illustrated with colour plates of set specimens. A complete set (more)

Phytomyzides et Ochtidiae Sveciae (Dissert. Resp. C.W. Pettersson)

by Fallén, C.F.

Cat No. : 39227, Published : 1823

Hardback £80.00

Text Latin. Descriptions of new species.

Horn-Schenkling 6405. (more)

Illustrations of British Entomology. Mandibulata Vol. I-VII [and] Haustellata. Vol. I-IV [and] Supplement

by Stephens, J.F.

Cat No. : 37988, Published : 1828-1846, Illustrations : 95 hand-col engraved plates

Hardback £3,000.00

Scarce complete set with fine hand-coloured, engraved plates by C.M. Curtis and J.O. Westwood. Mandibulata in 7 vols (39 plates), Haustellata in 4 vols (41 plates), plus Supplement (15 (more)

Ants (New Naturalist 59)

by Brian, M.V.

Cat No. : 39245, Published : 1977, Illustrations : 2 col + 16 b/w plates

Hardback £65.00

1st edition. (more)

The Romance of Natural History. [First Series] [and] Second Series

by Gosse, P.H.

Cat No. : 38770, Published : 1860-1862, Illustrations : 22 plates

Hardback £140.00

These volumes were among the most successful of Gosse's popular books, and continued to be reprinted after his death. First Series: 1st edition; Second Series: second issue (the first issue was (more)

The New Naturalist. Vol. 1-120

by

Cat No. : 39025, Published : 1945-2010, Illustrations : col + b/w plates

Hardback £7,500.00

Attractive run of New Naturalist main series Vols 1-120 (1945-2012). The majority are 1st editions with the exception of vols 25 & 37 (reprints) and 27 & 47 (second editions); Vol. 6 (Highlands & (more)

The Birds of Australia. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia: Books used in the preparation of this work with a few biographical details of authors and collectors

by Mathews, G.M.

Cat No. : 38914, Published : 1925, Illustrations : 1 b/w plate

Hardback £450.00

Scarce. Gregory Macalister Mathews (1876-1949) was an Australian-born ornithologist who spent much of his later life in England. His passion for Australian birds led Matthews to publish many key (more)

Ocean Flowers and their Teachings

by [Howard, Mary Matilda] (1804-1893)

Cat No. : 38921, Published : [1846], Illustrations : frontis, 38 plates of mounted specimens

Hardback £1,250.00

First edition. Illustrated with mounted specimens; frontis printed in sepia with a basket of mounted seaweed fronds; plates each with one or several mounted speciems of seaweeds, zoophytes, (more)

Phytologia; or the Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening. With the Theory of Draining Morasses, and with and Improved Construction of the Drill Plough

by Darwin, Erasmus

Cat No. : 38753, Published : 1800, Illustrations : 12 copper engraved plates (2 folding)

Hardback £395.00

First edition. Part I: Physiology of Vegetation; Part II: Economy of Vegegation; Part III: Agriculture and Horticulture. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), physician and natural philosopher, and grandfather (more)

The Moral of Flowers

by [Hey, Rebecca]

Cat No. : 38893, Published : 1833, Illustrations : 24 hand-col plates

Hardback £480.00

First edition. Beautiful hand-coloured plates of flowers engraved by William Clark, 'formerly draughtsman and engraver to the London Horticultural Society.' (more)

Minutes in Agriculture and Planting ... Illustrated with Specimens of eight Sorts of the best, and two Sorts of thw worst Natural Grasses ...

by Amos, William

Cat No. : 38186, Published : 1804, Illustrations : 3 plates with dried grass samples, 9 engraved platess (2 hand-col)

Hardback £795.00

I. On the Structure and component Principles of Vegetables. II. On the Culture and Use of nine of the best artificial, and of eight of the best natural Grasses. III. On the Construction and Use of a (more)

Glaucus; or the Wonders of the Shore

by Kingsley, Charles

Cat No. : 39060, Published : 1878, Illustrations : 12 col plates, text illus

Hardback £75.00

Sixth edition. (more)

Essays on the Microscope; Containing a Practical Description of the Most Improved Microscopes; A General History of Insects, their Transformantions, Peculiar Habitats, and Oeconomy

by Adams, George

Cat No. : 37135, Published : 1798, Illustrations : allegorical frontis, 32 double-page engraved plates, text figs

Hardback £1,500.00

An account of the various species, and singualar properties, of the Hydrae and Vorticellae: a description of three hundred and eighty-three Animalcula: With a concise catalogue of interesting (more)

The Land and Freshwater Mollusks indigenous to, or naturalized in, the British Isles

by Reeve, Lovell

Cat No. : 39213, Published : 1863, Illustrations : frontis, folding map, text figs

Hardback £150.00

Portrait frontispiece J.P.R. Draparnaud (1772-1804). 16-page publisher's catalogue, dated 1863, bound at rear. (more)

The Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893-1896. Scientific Results. Vol. I

by Nansen, Fridtjof (Ed.)

Cat No. : 38445, Published : 1900, Illustrations : 46 plates (1 col, 1 folding), text figs

Hardback £300.00

First of 6 volumes of Scientific Reports. Contents: I. C. Archer, The Fram; II. J.F. Pompeckj, The Jurassic Fauna of Cape Flora, Franz Josef Land. With a Geological Sketch of Cape Flora and its (more)

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