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Used and Collectable Books - Easter 2026
For Easter this list features a selection of recently acquired used and collectable antiquarian titles. Our next list will feature new and forthcoming publications.
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of our bookshop in Iver (Pemberley Books was established in 1989, but re-located to Iver, Buckinghamshire, 25 years ago). We are proud to celebrate this anniversary with our valued customers from the UK and around the world.
Throughout 2026 every customer who makes a purchase within each three-month period will be entered into a prize draw, with one lucky winner receiving a £25.00 Pemberley Books voucher.
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by Braby, M.F.
Cat No. : 64330, Published : 2000, Illustrations : 70 colour plates, maps, text figs
Hardback £250.00
Comprehensive 2-volume work on Australia's butterflies, allowing identification of all c. 400 species. Fine colour plates illustrate all adults and some immature stages in colour. Species accounts (more)
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by Lemaire, C.
Cat No. : 64328, Published : 2002, Illustrations : 140 colour plates, 214 plates of line drawings, 185 distribution maps
Hardback £150.00
English with French summaries. The final volume of the 4 volume revision of the Saturniidae of America. Life size illustrations of specimens, drawings of genitalia and other structures, 14 plates of (more)
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by Common, I.F.B.; Waterhouse, D.F.
Cat No. : 64333, Published : 1981, Illustrations : 49 col and b/w plates, distribution maps, text figs
Hardback £35.00
Revised Edition. (more)
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by d'Abrera, B.
Cat No. : 64331, Published : 1975, Illustrations : col illus throughout, folding map insert
£275.00
First edition of this monograph on the Birdwing Butterflies. Covers over 30 species and 120 subspecies of Troides, Ornithiptera and Trogonoptera. (more)
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by d'Abrera, B.
Cat No. : 64332, Published : 1981-1995, Illustrations : col plates
Hardback £495.00
Complete set of of the Neotropical Region from the Butterflies of the World series. All original editions, apart from Vol. III, which is a 1995 reprint (1st published 1987). (more)
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by d'Abrera, B.
Cat No. : 64348, Published : 2001, Illustrations : 6,500 colour figs
Hardback £65.00
By the author of the renowned Butterflies of the World series, this single volume enables the recognition of butterflies, at least to generic level. Also includes species described since (more)
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by Frohawk, F.W.
Cat No. : 64346, Published : [1946], Illustrations : 48 col plates
Hardback £110.00
Dated 1938, but this is the reissue of 1946 (remaining stock of the first printing was destroyed during the second world war). (more)
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by Kappel, A.W.; Kirby, W.E.
Cat No. : 64432, Published : [1895], Illustrations : 30 col plates, text figs
Hardback £150.00
A late Victorian popular work on the Lepidoptera of Britain and Europe, notable for its exceptional chromolithographic illustrations after drawings by H. Deuchert and S. Slocombe and attractive (more)
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by Bright, P.M.; Leeds, H.A.
Cat No. : 64431, Published : 1938, Illustrations : 18 plates (4 col)
Hardback £185.00
First edition. Includes the 1941 supplement (pp. 139-144) loosely inserted - Errata + 'British Aberrations of the Small Copper Butterfly' by H.A. Leeds. (more)
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by Woodhouse, L.G.O.
Cat No. : 64334, Published : [1950], Illustrations : col frontis, 57 plates (36 col), maps
Hardback £125.00
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 Jiggins, C.
Cat No. : 64446, Published : 2017, Illustrations : 30 col plates, text figs
Hardback £65.00
The Heliconius butterflies are one of the classic systems in evolutionary biology and have contributed hugely to our understanding of evolution over the last 150 years. Their dramatic radiation and (more)
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by Simms, G.E.
Cat No. : 64419, Published : [1899], Illustrations : 21 text figs
Paperback £25.00
Dean's Practical Guide Books. Scarce. Dean & Son were early publishers of affordable instructional manuals. G.E. Simms also wrote another volume in the same series, Butterfly and Moth (more)
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by Maeterlinck, M.; Detmold, E.J. (Illus)
Cat No. : 64398, Published : 1912, Illustrations : 13 mounted col plates, decorative roundels to endpapers and title page
Hardback £225.00
Translated by Alfred Sutro. Re-set illustrated edition, first published October, 1911, and reprinted June, 1912. Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) a Belgian playwright and poet was awarded the Nobel (more)
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by Gauld, I.D.; Mitchell, P.A.
Cat No. : 64011, Published : 1981, Illustrations : 969 line drawings, 21 maps
Paperback £75.00
A revision of the Ophioninae of the Indo-Papuan region. Includes keys to 11 genera and 354 species known to occur in the area. (more)
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by Chvala, M.
Cat No. : 63823, Published : 2005, Illustrations : 424 line drawings
Hardback £135.00
Key to 90 species from genus Hilara (Empididae) found in Denmark and Fennoscandia. (more)
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by Delfinado, M.D.; Hardy, D.E.
Cat No. : 57532, Published : 1975, Illustrations : endpaper maps
Hardback £60.00
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by Carpenter, G.D. Hale
Cat No. : 57966, Published : 1920, Illustrations : 2 col plates, 87 b/w photos, charts, folding map
Hardback £85.00
First edition. Two chromolithographic plates of mimetic butterflies by E.C. Knight. An engaging early-20th-century natural history narrative, Carpenter’s work records his observations of the flora, (more)
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by Classey, E.W.; Ford, R.L.E.; Robinson, H.S. (Eds)
Cat No. : 64021, Published : 1950-1953, Illustrations : col + b/w plates, text figs
Paperback £140.00
First four volumes of this quarterly journal on British entomology. Index to Vol. 3 only included. Also with Vol. 5, part 2. (more)
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by Westwood, J.O.
Cat No. : 64399, Published : 1839-1840, Illustrations : 1 hand-col frontis, 133 text figs
Hardback £75.00
First edition. With 'Synopsis of the Genera of British Insects' at the rear of Vol. II. Hand-coloured frontispiece by J.O. Westwood, engraved by J. Swains. Freeman, 3949. (more)
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by Comstock, J.H.
Cat No. : 64003, Published : 1918, Illustrations : 10 plates, 427 text figs
Hardback £65.00
First edition. Scarce. A foundational work in entomology that established a standardized system for interpreting and naming insect wing veins. Widely influential in taxonomy and evolutionary studies, (more)
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by Appleton, D. et al
Cat No. : 64335, Published : [1977-1978]
Hardback £36.00
Duplicated typescript. Records of Lepidoptera found in Fareham, Hampshire, for the years 1976 and 1977. (more)
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by Blackman, R.
Cat No. : 64216, Published : 1974, Illustrations : 38 text figs, 8 col plates
Hardback £25.00
Introduction to the biology of aphids. Includes identification key to genera of common British aphids. (more)
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by Ben-Dov, Y.
Cat No. : 64165, Published : 1994
Hardback £65.00
With data on geographical distribution, host plants, biology and economic importance. (more)
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by Kozar, F.; Konczné Benedicty, Z.
Cat No. : 64246, Published : 2007, Illustrations : 234 text figs
Hardback £250.00
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by Kozar, F. (Ed.)
Cat No. : 64247, Published : 1998
Hardback £150.00
Publication No. 1 of the Dr. Szelenyi Gustav Foundation. (more)
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by Hodgson, C.J.
Cat No. : 64158, Published : 1994, Illustrations : 168 text figs
Hardback £165.00
The soft-scales (Coccidae) are one of about 20 families of the scale insect superfamily Coccoidea. The females are all sap-sucking and all 1100 known species are potential pests in agriculture, (more)
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by Miller, D.; Davidson, J.A.
Cat No. : 64186, Published : 2005, Illustrations : 939 col illus, 118 line drawings
Hardback £30.00
Comprehensive guide to the identification, field appearance, life history, and economic importance of the 110 species of armored scale insects found in the United States. Field key to economic (more)
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by Miller, D.R.; Gimpel, M.E.
Cat No. : 64164, Published : 2009
Hardback £250.00
With collaborations from Y. Ben-Dov, G.A.P. Gibson and A. Rung. Part 1: pp. 1-650; Part 2: pp. 651-1308. (more)
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by Kearton, R.
Cat No. : 56519, Published : 1898, Illustrations : b/w photos (many full page)
Hardback £35.00
Reprint (originally published 1895). Introduction by R. Bowdler Sharpe. Illustrated from photographs by C. Kearton. Publisher's catalogue to rear dated 1898. The brothers Richard (1862-1928) and (more)
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by Broderip, W.J.
Cat No. : 55707, Published : 1852
Hardback £65.00
First edition. William Broderip (1789-1859) was an English lawyer and naturalist, who formed a vast collection of natural history specimines (especially shells). Much of the material in this book was (more)
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by Darwin, Charles
Cat No. : 63207, Published : 1845, Illustrations : 14 text figs
Hardback £550.00
Second edition, corrected, with additions. Taken from Darwin's journals while on the H.M.S. Beagle, these notes form a background for ideas he would later develop in On the Origin of Species, (more)
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by Keay, R.W.J.
Cat No. : 64078, Published : 1989, Illustrations : 165 line drawings
Hardback £90.00
Revision of Nigerian Trees (1960, 1964) that includes all subsequent changes in nomenclature and classification as well as some 1500 vernacular names and vocabularies. Nearly 1000 species are listed (more)
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by Humphrey, William
Cat No. : 64437, Published : 1970, Illustrations : text illus
Hardback £25.00
First edition. Illustrations by Robert Eames and others. A delightful read for anglers and non-anglers alike. The author reminisces about his angling experiences and the memorable characters he (more)
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by Knox, A.E.
Cat No. : 64351, Published : 1999, Illustrations : 4 tinted plates, text illus
Hardback £95.00
New limited edition (first published 1872, John Van Voorst). Edition limited to 799 numbered copies of which 139 are bound in leather (this copy No. 29). Illustrations from tinted lithographic plates (more)
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by Nissen, C.
Cat No. : 60452, Published : 1951-1952
Hardback £150.00
First edition. Band I: Geschichte; Band II: Bibliographie. Text German. Essential bibliographical reference to illustrated botanical books. (more)
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