Collectable Books on Entomology & other Natural History - June 2025

Collectable and Antiquarian

Handbook of Palaearctic Macrolepidoptera. Vol. 1: Sesiidae - Clearwing Moths

by Spatenka, K.; Gorbunov, O.; Lastuvka, Z.; Tosevski, I.; Arita, Y.

Cat No. : 62134, Published : 1999, Illustrations : 487 col illus, 504 line drawings, distribution maps

Hardback £175.00

Covers the 309 species known from the Palaearctic region. Includes synonymic lists, descriptions, data on male and female genitalia, bionomics, habitat and distribution. Superb colour illustrations (more)

Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region

by d'Abrera, B.

Cat No. : 62138, Published : 1980, Illustrations : numerous col photos

Hardback £150.00

First edition. Based on 'Synonymic Catalogue of the Butterflies of the Ethiopian Region' by R.H. Carcasson. Four-page Addenda and Corrigenda (1982) loosely inserted. (more)

Butterflies of the Australian Region

by d'Abrera, B.

Cat No. : 62139, Published : 1971, Illustrations : colour photos throughout

Hardback £75.00

1st edition of the first volume of this monumental series of illustrated works covering the world butterfly fauna. (more)

Danske Dagsommerfugle

by Stoltze, M.

Cat No. : 62103, Published : 1996, Illustrations : 300+ col photos, 20 col plates, maps

Hardback £75.00

Text Danish. Comprehensive handbook for identification with in-depth treatment and numerous illustrations of all the species of butterflies hitherto recorded from Denmark. The many colour photographs (more)

A Monograph of the British Aberrations of the Chalk-Hill Blue Butterfly Lysandra coridon (Poda, 1761)

by Bright, P.M.; Leeds, H.A.

Cat No. : 62097, Published : 1938, Illustrations : 18 plates (4 col)

Hardback £175.00

First edition. (more)

Natural History of British Butterflies. Vol. I-II

by Frohawk, F.W.

Cat No. : 62137, Published : [1924], Illustrations : 60 colour + 5 plain plates

Hardback £395.00

A classic work based on the author's original observations, illustrating the life stages of all British Butterflies for the first time. Preface is dated 1914, but publication was delayed until after (more)

A Natural History of the British Butterflies. Vol. I-IV

by Tutt, J.W.

Cat No. : 62045, Published : 1905-1914, Illustrations : b/w plates, text figs

Hardback £180.00

The four volumes on butterflies (complete) from Tutt's A Natural History of British Lepidoptera. (The complete work comprised Vol. 1-5 (Moths) and Vol. 8-11 (Butterflies) [Vol. 6+7 were not (more)

Systematische Untersuchungen am Pieris napi-bryoniae-Komplex (s.l.) (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

by Eitschberger, U.

Cat No. : 62176, Published : 1983, Illustrations : 109 col plates, numerous b/w photos + line drawings (11,000 figs)

Paperback £100.00

Caterpillars: Ecological and Evolutionary Constraints on Foraging

by Stamp, N.E.; Casey, T.M. (Eds)

Cat No. : 62175, Published : 1993, Illustrations : text figs

Hardback £65.00

Butterflies of Formosa in Colour

by Shirozu, T.

Cat No. : 33228, Published : 1960, Illustrations : frontis, 76 col plates, 479 text figs

Hardback £85.00

First edition. Text Japanese, index to scientific names. (more)

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

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

Cat No. : 62044, Published : 1976-2002, Illustrations : numerous col plates, text figs, maps

Hardback £400.00

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

The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation. Vol. I

by Tutt, J.W. (Ed.)

Cat No. : 62160, Published : 1890-1891, Illustrations : 4 plates (3 col)

Hardback £50.00

Rare first volume of this British journal on Lepidoptera. (more)

Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera. Vol. 1-4

by Papp, L.; Darvas, B. (Eds)

Cat No. : 62420, Published : 1997-2000, Illustrations : text figs

Hardback £1,100.00

Vol. 1: General and Applied Dipterology; Vol. 2: Nematocera and Lower Brachycera; Vol. 3: Higher Brachycera; [Vol. 4:] Appendix. Scarce complete set of this comprehensive work on the Diptera of the (more)

The Sciomyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 14)

by Rozkosny, R.

Cat No. : 61618, Published : 1984, Illustrations : 639 figs

Hardback £85.00

Original printing. (more)

The Horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the Ethiopian Region. Vol. I-III

by Oldroyd, H.

Cat No. : 62367, Published : 1952-1957, Illustrations : b/w plates, text figs, maps

Hardback £70.00

Vol. I. Haematopota and Hippocentrum; Vol. II. Tabanus and related genera; Vol. III. Chrysopinae, Scepsidinae and Pangoniinae (more)

The Hydrophiloidea of Fennoscandia and Denmark (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 18)

by Hansen, M.

Cat No. : 61617, Published : 1987, Illustrations : 4 col plates, 345 text figs

Hardback £65.00

Original printing. Fauna Ent. Scand. 18. (more)

The Carabidae (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 15 [1+2])

by Lindroth, C.H.

Cat No. : 61620, Published : 1985-1986, Illustrations : 8 col plates, 514 text figs

Hardback £120.00

Original edition. (more)

A Practical Handbook of British Beetles Vol. I-II [with] New British Beetles: Species not in Joy's Practical Handbook

by Joy, N.H.; Hodge, P.J.; Jones, R.A.

Cat No. : 62156, Published : 1932-1995, Illustrations : 169 plates of line drawings, 1 map

£200.00

First edition. Vol. I: Text; Vol. II: Plates. Includes the 1995 Supplement, New British Beetles by Hodge & Jones. (more)

Die Käfer Mitteleuropas: Systematik. Bd 2-11

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

Cat No. : 61611, Published : 1964-1983, Illustrations : text figs

Hardback £495.00

Text German. First editions. The Systematik series lacking the first introductory volume (Bd 1: Einführung in die Käferkunde), and the later four supplements. (more)

Ordering Life: Karl Jordan and the Naturalist Tradition

by Johnson, K.

Cat No. : 33207, Published : 2012

Hardback £35.00

Demons of the Dust: A Study in Insect Behavior

by Wheeler, W.M.

Cat No. : 61946, Published : [1930], Illustrations : b/w frontis, 49 figs

Hardback £75.00

First UK edition. Scarce. An account of the predatory ant-lions (Myrmeleontidae, Neuroptera) and worm-lions (Vermileonidae, Diptera). (more)

The Hemiptera-Homoptera (Cicadina and Psyllina) of the British Islands

by Edwards, J.

Cat No. : 61448, Published : 1896, Illustrations : 2 plain + 28 hand-col plates

Hardback £150.00

Scarce large paper, illustrated edition (more)

Scale Insects of Northeastern North America: Identification, Biology, and Distribution

by Kosztarab, M.

Cat No. : 62163, Published : 1996, Illustrations : 32 col photos, 263 line drawings

Hardback £150.00

Both adult sexes and immature stages are described for all of the 254 species of this group occurring from Virginia to Newfoundland and west to the Mississippi River, with information on general (more)

Hétéroptères Aquatiques Faune de France 61

by Poisson, R.

Cat No. : 61556, Published : 1957, Illustrations : 185 text figs

Hardback £40.00

Text French. Scarce. (more)

Heteropteres Miridae Faune de France 67

by Wagner, E.; Weber, H.H.

Cat No. : 61605, Published : 1964, Illustrations : 295 text figs

Hardback £50.00

Hymenopteres Tenthredoides Faune de France 47

by Berland, L.

Cat No. : 61557, Published : 1947, Illustrations : 418 text figs

Hardback £50.00

Text French. Scarce. (more)

Wayside and Woodland Blossoms A Guide to British Wild Flowers. Series I-III

by Step, E.; Jackson, A.B.

Cat No. : 56212, Published : 1938, 1935, 1933, Illustrations : 400 plates (most col), text figs

Hardback £45.00

'New Edition': Ser. 1: (1938); Ser. 2: (1930, rpt 1935); Ser. 3: (1929, second impression 1933). Series I revised by A.B. Jackson. (more)

Lichens (New Naturalist 86)

by Gilbert, O.

Cat No. : 62128, Published : 2000, Illustrations : 16 plates of col photos, over 150 illustrations in text

Hardback £65.00

First edition. (more)

Orchids of Costa Rica | Orquídeas de Costa Rica. Vol. 1-5

by Morales, J.F.

Cat No. : 61080, Published : 2009, Illustrations : numerous col photos

Paperback £180.00

Text bilingual Spanish/English. Complete in 5 volumes. Vol. 1+2: second edition; Vol. 3-5: first edition. (more)

The Cattleyas and their Relatives; Vol. I-VI

by Withner, C.L.

Cat No. : 61075, Published : 1988-2000, Illustrations : numerous col photos, text figs

Hardback £295.00

First edition. 6-volume set: Vol. I: The Cattleyas; Vol. II: The Laelias; Vol. III: Schomburgkia, Sophronitis and Other South American Genera; Vol. IV: The Bahamaian and Caribbean Species; (more)

Silent Spring

by Carson, Rachel

Cat No. : 62255, Published : 1965

Hardback £30.00

Introduction by Lord Shackleton. Preface by Julian Huxley, F.R.S. Fourth Impression. (more)

Lloyd's Natural History

by Sharpe, R. Bowdler (Ed.)

Cat No. : 60837, Published : 1896-1897, Illustrations : 463 (of 465) col plates, 2 plain plates, 8 folding maps, text figs

Hardback £395.00

Complete 16 vol set: British Birds by R. Bowdler Sharpe (4 vols), [lacking 2 plates]; Handbook to the Game-Birds by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant (2 vols); Handbook to the Order Lepidoptera (more)

The Banks Letters

by Dawson, Warren R. (Ed.)

Cat No. : 62164, Published : 1958

Hardback £175.00

A calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum (Natural History) and other collections in Great Britain. Comprises approximately 7,500 entries (more)

Romantic Richmondshire. Being a Complete Account of the History, Antiquities and Scenery of the Picturesque Valleys of the Swale and Yore

by Speight, Harry

Cat No. : 57425, Published : 1897, Illustrations : 20 plain plates, 2 folding plans, b/w illus

Hardback £120.00

First edition. An important and richly detailed topographical and historical survey of the Yorkshire Dales, focusing on the valleys of Swaledale and Wensleydale (the ancient "Richmondshire"). Harry (more)

The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne In the County of Southampton

by White, Gilbert; Harting, J.E

Cat No. : 53215, Published : n.d. [1911], Illustrations : text engravings

Hardback £35.00

The standard edition by E.T. Bennett, thoroughly revised with additional notes by James Edmund Harting. With ten letters not included in any other edition of the work. Illustrated by Thomas Bewick (more)

Reminiscences of a Yorkshire Naturalist

by Williamson, William Crawford

Cat No. : 58424, Published : 1896

Hardback £40.00

First edition. Published posthumously and edited by his wife. William Crawford Williamson (1816-1895), was a British naturalist and paleobotanist. (more)

Birds and Light: The Art of Lars Jonsson

by Jonsson, Lars

Cat No. : 62284, Published : 2002, Illustrations : 180 colour illus

Hardback £38.00

This book is a retrospective of Lars Jonsson's career as one of the world's best-known and most admired bird artists. Here are pages from his earliest sketchbooks, alongside finished plates from the (more)

Drawn from Nature

by Brockie, Keith

Cat No. : 53982, Published : 1995, Illustrations : col + b/w illus

£250.00

Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered leatherbound copies, this copy No. 32. Includes an original signed pencil sketch by Brockie of a 'sleeping avocet, Texel, Netherlands 4/93'. (There were also (more)

The Indian Ducks and their Allies [and] The Game-Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Vol. II-III

by Baker, E.C.S.

Cat No. : 47517, Published : 1908, 1921, 1930, Illustrations : 60 col + 15 b/w plates, 3 additioional illustrated title pages, 2 maps

Hardback £375.00

The first volume of Game-Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon appers under its own separate title, The Indian Ducks and their Allies; Vol. II: Snipe, Bustard and Sand-grouse; Vol. III: (more)

Rural Bird Life being Essays on Ornithology with Instructions for preserving Objects relating to that Science

by Dixon, C.

Cat No. : 53136, Published : 1880, Illustrations : col frontis, 4 b/w plates, woodcuts to text

Hardback £40.00

First Edition. Attractive chromolithographic frontispiece, 'The Cuckoo's favourite nest'.

Freeman 993. (more)

Birds of our Country: Their Eggs, Nests, Life, Haunts and Identification. Vol. I-II

by Finn, Frank; Robinson, E.K.

Cat No. : 55389, Published : n.d. [1922-1923], Illustrations : 30 col plates, b/w photos, b/w illus

Hardback £45.00

First edition. Title pages undated. (more)

The Wildfowl Paintings of Henry Jones

by Olney, P.J.S.

Cat No. : 62157, Published : 1987, Illustrations : col frontis + 60 tipped in col plates

Hardback £295.00

Foreword by Peter Scott, biographical chapter by Nigel Sitwell. Limited edition of 350 copies, each signed by the author. This copy No. 347. (more)

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