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Books on Dragonflies and Aquatic Insects
Offered here is a selection of New, Secondhand and Antiquarian books on dragonflies and other aquatic entomology
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by Lucas, W.J.
Cat No. : 40168, Published : 1900, Illustrations : 27 colour plates, 57 text figs
Hardback £275.00
1st edition. Imprint to spine 'Upcott-Gill'. This version has patterned end-papers incorporating the publisher's intials 'LUG' and 4-page publisher's catalogue to rear. There is a variant version (more)
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by Tillyard, R.J.
Cat No. : 39853, Published : 1917, Illustrations : 4 plates (2 col), folding map, folding table, 188 text figs
Hardback £195.00
Rare. (more)
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by Harris, Moses
Cat No. : 21617, Published : 1786, Illustrations : engraved title, colour chart, anatomical plate, 50 hand-col plates
Hardback £2,000.00
2nd edition. In this copy the English title-page is dated 1782, but the French title page, 1786; the allegorical frontispiece is not present, but the colour chart is. The first issue of the 2nd (more)
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by Harris, Moses
Cat No. : 25870, Published : 1782, Illustrations : 51 plates
Hardback £300.00
2nd edition. The ‘Exposition’ includes seven beautiful plates of dragonflies. Moses Harris is best known to odonatologists for his description of the Banded Demoiselle, Calopteryx splendens, (more)
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by Asahina, S.
Cat No. : 41665, Published : 1954, Illustrations : 70 b/w plates
Hardback £200.00
Text English. Scarce. (more)
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by Corbet, P.S.; Longfield, C.; Moore, N.W.
Cat No. : 16826, Published : 1960, Illustrations : 24 col + 8 b/w plates
Hardback £225.00
1st edition. (more)
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by Lucas, W.J.
Cat No. : 40179, Published : 1930, Illustrations : 35 plates (13 col)
Hardback £150.00
Scarce. Only 500 copies printed. (more)
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by Robert, P.-A.
Cat No. : 40984, Published : 1958, Illustrations : 48 plates (31 col), 64 text figs
Hardback £120.00
Text French. Attractive illustrations by the author. Scarce. This work has never been reprinted. (more)
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by Corbet, P.S.
Cat No. : 40451, Published : 1999, Illustrations : 16 plates of col photos, text figs
Hardback £85.00
First edition. Major reference work on dragonfly biology. (more)
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by De Fonseka, T.
Cat No. : 28104, Published : 2000, Illustrations : 20 col plates, numerous line drawings
Hardback £65.00
Keys to adults and larvae, descriptions of the species with comments on habitat, abundance, synonymy and distribution. (more)
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by Longfield, C.
Cat No. : 29161, Published : 1937, Illustrations : col frontis, 38 b/w plates, text figs
Hardback £65.00
1st edition. (more)
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by Davies, A.L.; Tobin, P.
Cat No. : 38967, Published : 1984-1985
Paperback £45.00
Vol. 1: Zygoptera, Anisozygoptera. Vol. 2: Anisoptera. (more)
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by Nelson, B.; Thompson, R.
Cat No. : 40449, Published : 2004, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £40.00
Species accounts and images of all the Irish fauna. Chapters on biology, recording, field techniques and photography. Fine colour photos of adults, nymphs and habitats. (more)
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by Dumont, H.J.
Cat No. : 39855, Published : 1991, Illustrations : col frontis, 511 b/w photos + line drawings, map
Hardback £40.00
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by Conci, C.; Nielsen, C.
Cat No. : 39602, Published : 1956, Illustrations : 156 figs
Hardback £45.00
Text Italian. (more)
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by Rowe, R.
Cat No. : 41449, Published : 1987, Illustrations : 16 col plates, text figs
Paperback £45.00
With contributions by P.S. Corbet and W.J. Winstanley. Detailed information on the ecology and behaviour of all 17 species found in New Zealand. Includes key. Now scarce. (more)
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by Boudot, J.-P.; Kalkman, V.J. et al
Cat No. : 40790, Published : 2009, Illustrations : col photos, dist maps
Paperback £40.00
Libellula Supplement 9. (more)
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by Maravalhas, E.; Soares, A.
Cat No. : 40574, Published : 2013, Illustrations : 600+ col photos, maps
Paperback £39.00
Text Portuguese/English. This is the first book to cover the dragonflies of Portugal. It provides a comprehensive identification guide to the 67 recorded species. For each species there is a concise (more)
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by Wilson, K.D.P.
Cat No. : 39574, Published : 1995, Illustrations : numerous colour photos
Paperback £38.00
Descriptions, colour photos of living dragonflies, and a keys to 102 species. (more)
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by Askew, R.R.
Cat No. : 38586, Published : 1988, Illustrations : 31 colour plates, 502 text figs, 116 maps
Hardback £35.00
First edition. (more)
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by Eaton, A.E.
Cat No. : 38062, Published : 1883-1887, Illustrations : 65 plain plates
Hardback £175.00
Trans. Linn. Soc., 2nd Ser. - Zoo., Vol. III, Pts I-V (of 6, lacking the final part VI, pp. 321-352). (The missing part VI contains Additions and Corrections, Descriptions of the Plates and the (more)
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by Edmunds, G.F; Jensen, S.L.; Berner, L.
Cat No. : 38296, Published : 1976, Illustrations : 432 figs
Hardback £35.00
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by Campbell, I.C. (Ed.)
Cat No. : 37521, Published : 1990, Illustrations : text figs
Hardback £75.00
Proceedings of the 5th International Ephemeroptera Conference and the 9th International Plecoptera Conference. (more)
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by Flannagan, J.F.; Marshall, K.E. (Eds)
Cat No. : 37522, Published : 1980, Illustrations : text figs
Hardback £45.00
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by Gepp, J.; Aspöck, H.; Hölzel, H.; Mansel, M.; Canard, M.; Panelius, S.
Cat No. : 22265, Published : 1984-2002, Illustrations : b/w photos, text figs, line drawings
£250.00
£300.00 (Save £50.00)
Vol. 1+5 PB, 2-4, 6-7 HB. Individual volumes titled as follows: 1. [1980] Progress in World Neuropterology (1984); 2. [1984] Recent Research in Neuropterology (1986); 3. [1988] Advances in (more)
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by Killington, F.J.
Cat No. : 40167, Published : 1936-1937, Illustrations : 30 plates (8 colour), text figs
Hardback £90.00
First edition. Complete in two volumes. (more)
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by Marlier, G.
Cat No. : 38598, Published : 1964, Illustrations : 61 text figs, folding map
Hardback £45.00
Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique Memoires, 2. Series, Fasc. 76. (more)
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by Hickin, N.E.
Cat No. : 31619, Published : 1967, Illustrations : 980 line drawings
Hardback £50.00
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by Wiggins, G.B.
Cat No. : 33748, Published : 1977, Illustrations : numerous line drawings
Hardback £45.00
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by Mosely, M.E.
Cat No. : 15802, Published : 1939, Illustrations : 4 plates, 631 text figs
Hardback £40.00
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by Needham, J.G.; Claassen, P.W.
Cat No. : 36542, Published : 1970, Illustrations : 50 plain plates, 29 text figs
Hardback £35.00
Reprinted without change (1st published in 1925). (more)
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by Claassen, P.W.
Cat No. : 36543, Published : (1931), Illustrations : 35 b/w plates, text figs
Hardback £25.00
Undated reprint (first published 1931). (more)
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by Balfour-Browne, F.
Cat No. : 40593, Published : 1940-1958, Illustrations : 5 plates, text figs, maps
Hardback £150.00
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by Hinton, H.E.
Cat No. : 37897, Published : 1940, Illustrations : 401 text figs
Hardback £50.00
Novitates Zoologicae 42(2): 217-396. (more)
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by Poisson, R.
Cat No. : 41023, Published : 1968, Illustrations : 29 text figs
Paperback £25.00
Text French. (more)
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by Poisson, R.; Sallier Dupin, F. de
Cat No. : 41025, Published : 1969, Illustrations : 3 text figs, 1 folding map
Paperback £22.00
Text French. (more)
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by Kawai, T. (Ed.)
Cat No. : 37530, Published : 1988, Illustrations : text figs, line drawings
Hardback £110.00
Text Japanese with Latin scientific names. (more)
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by McCafferty, W.P.
Cat No. : 40068, Published : 1981, Illustrations : 16 col plates, b/w illus
Hardback £65.00
'This book is the first consistent and thoroughly comparative treatment of each of the orders and families of aquatic and semiaquatic insects in North America, north of Mexico.' (more)
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by Lancaster, J.; Briers, R.; Macadam, C. (Eds)
Cat No. : 32595, Published : 2008, Illustrations : text figs
Hardback £50.00
Brings together information from fields ranging from physiology through ecology to evolution to consider in a unified manner the challenges facing insect populations in aquatic environments. (more)
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by Usinger, R.L. (Ed.)
Cat No. : 34610, Published : 1968, Illustrations : numerous line drawings
Hardback £40.00
3rd printing (more)
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by Merritt, R.W.; Cummins, K.W. (Eds)
Cat No. : 39473, Published : 1984, Illustrations : line drawings
Paperback £25.00
2nd edition. (more)
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by Smallshire, D.; Swash, A.
Cat No. : 39408, Published : 2020, Illustrations : col photos + maps
Paperback £18.50
£25.00 (Save £6.50)
The go-to photographic guide to all the damselflies and dragonflies recorded in Europe, including the Macaronesian Islands and western Turkey Europe's Dragonflies is a comprehensive, lavishly (more)
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by Stille, M.; Stille, B.
Cat No. : 41470, Published : 2020, Illustrations : 231 col photos, 44 maps
Hardback £38.00
2nd edition. There are 143 species of dragonflies and damselflies in Europe and 39 of these are presently found on Corfu, giving the island one of the highest numbers of species in the Greek (more)
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by Schneider, T.; Ikemeyer, D.
Cat No. : 39507, Published : 2020, Illustrations : c. 430 col photos
Hardback £89.00
The first comprehensive work on damselflies and dragonflies in Iran. Between 2013 to 2018, the authors travelled 16 times to almost every Iranian province to investigate the indigenous dragonfly (more)
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by Brochard, C.; Robert, P.-A.
Cat No. : 36260, Published : DEC 2018, Illustrations : col illus
Hardback £79.95
Paul-André Robert (1901-1977) was a Swiss artist and naturalist. In Europe Robert is best known for his book Les Libellules (‘Dragonflies’), which appeared in 1958. Less well-known is the fact that (more)
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by Riley, A.M.
Cat No. : 40846, Published : 2020, Illustrations : over 300 col photos
Paperback £19.99
£22.00 (Save £2.01)
This is a comprehensive and user-friendly photographic identification guide to all species, sexes and forms of British and Irish dragon- and damselflies, with essential field notes and habitat (more)
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by Rinne, A.; Wiberg-Larsen, P.
Cat No. : 33893, Published : 2017, Illustrations : col photos, b/w illus, maps
Hardback £115.00
Trichoptera – or caddisflies - are a highly diverse group of aquatic insects, their larvae inhabiting any type of fresh and slightly brackish waters. They play an important role in the trophic (more)
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by Zhang, H.
Cat No. : 38404, Published : 2019, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £325.00
Text English/Chinese. A total of 820 species belonging to 23 families and 178 genera from all over China are illustrated, more than in any comparable book worldwide. The thousands of beautiful photos (more)
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by Gauci, C.
Cat No. : 38289, Published : 2018, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £32.50
This book describes each of the nineteen species recorded in the Maltese Islands and each species is amply illustrated by photographs which, for the commoner species, illustrate most or all the (more)
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by Sumanapala, A.P.
Cat No. : 34082, Published : 2017, Illustrations : col photos, text figs, distribution maps
Paperback £19.50
This Field Guide provides a significant contribution to the documentation of freshwater biodiversity of south Asia. The book includes beautiful photographs and brief descriptions of 105 species of (more)
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by Tarboton, W.; Tarboton, M.
Cat No. : 37753, Published : 2019, Illustrations : c. 1000 col photos, b/w figs
Paperback £12.99
£15.99 (Save £3.00)
Second edition. Comprehensive and fully up to date field guide covering all 164 species of dragonflies and damselflies found in South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. A detailed introduction covers (more)
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by Neu, P.J.; Malicky, H.; Graf, W.; Schmidt-Kloiber, A.
Cat No. : 35085, Published : 2018, Illustrations : 1579 colour distribution maps, 6 figs
Hardback £165.00
Text English. In 2005, during the 'First Conference on Faunistics and Zoogeography of European Trichoptera' in Luxembourg, the idea for a distribution atlas of European caddisflies was discussed. Six (more)
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by Brooks, S.; Cham, S.; Lewington, R. (Illus)
Cat No. : 36312, Published : 2018, Illustrations : 235+ col illustrations, 50 col photos
Paperback £15.00
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5th edition. All Great Britain and Ireland's resident and migrant dragonfly and damselfly species fully described and illustrated. Fully updated, revised and redesigned, this edition features full (more)
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by Salokannel, J.; Mattila, K.
Cat No. : 35039, Published : 2018, Illustrations : 1500 col photos + drawings
Hardback £59.00
Text Finnish with English species summaries and figure captions. A comphrehensive guide to the identification, distribution, phenology and habitats of the caddisfly (Trichoptera) fauna of Finland. (more)
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by Crofts, S.M.
Cat No. : 37049, Published : 2019, Illustrations : 35 col photos + line drawings
Paperback £27.95
The British caddisflies (Trichoptera) are often viewed as a difficult group. While the larvae can be found in most freshwater habitats, the adults are a different matter, with some species only on (more)
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by Foster, G.N.; Friday, L.E.
Cat No. : 21040, Published : 2011, Illustrations : 162 col figs, 318 line drawings
Paperback £24.00
Illustrated identification keys to families, genera and species, with species accounts: key characters, habitat, distribution and biology. All species illustrated (more)
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by Foster, G.N.; Bilton, D.T.; Friday, L.E.
Cat No. : 26099, Published : 2014, Illustrations : 102 col figs, text figs
Paperback £25.00
Illustrated keys are provided for the families, genera, species and other taxa of British and Irish members of the superfamily Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera suborder Polyphaga). The Hydrophiloidea (more)
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by Foster, G.N.; Bilton, D.T.; Nelson, B.H.
Cat No. : 29953, Published : 2016, Illustrations : 154 distribution maps, 32 col photos + text figs
Paperback £20.00
This atlas covers the predaceous water beetles, or Hydradephaga – Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, one species of Paelobiidae, Noteridae and Dytiscidae. Includes 154 species, 152 of them from Britain, 113 from (more)
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by Dijkstra, K.-D.; Lewington, R. (Illustrator)
Cat No. : 40478, Published : AUG 2020, Illustrations : over 1000 col illus, line drawings + photos, distribution maps
Hardback £35.00
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Cat No. : 40477, Published : AUG 2020, Illustrations : over 1000 col illus, line drawings + photos, distribution maps
Paperback £19.95
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The second edition includes fully revised regional guides and identification texts, updated distribution maps and conservation statuses, illustrated accounts for five species that have been (more)
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by Crosby, C.; Macnamara, P.
Cat No. : 41478, Published : JUNE 2020, Illustrations : 20 col illus
Paperback £27.50
Chasing Dragonflies: A Natural, Cultural, and Personal History is an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to these remarkable insects. Drawing on her experiences as an American natural (more)
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by Smith, B.D.; Patten, M.A.
Cat No. : 41474, Published : JUNE 2020, Illustrations : 569 col illus, 55 b/w illus, 27 tables
Hardback £30.99
This lavishly illustrated book examines the distribution, ecology, conservation status, and biogeography of 176 species of dragonflies in the southern plains of the United States, where twelve (more)
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