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Leaves from a Moth-Hunter's Notebook

by Allan, P.B.M.

Cat No. : 53094, Published : 1980, Illustrations : b/w photo frontis

Hardback £45.00

Published posthumously. Edited and with an Introduction by R.S. Wilkinson. (more)

British Water Beetles. Vol. I-III

by Balfour-Browne, F.

Cat No. : 52564, Published : 1940-1958, Illustrations : 5 plates, 266 text figs, 67 maps

Hardback £100.00

Only 450 copies of vol. I and 800 copies of Vol. II were printed. (more)

Collection of 25 offprints on water beetles, zoological nomenclature and one on fish

by Balfour-Browne, F.

Cat No. : 52860, Published : 1913-1967

Paperback £45.00

Includes, 'On the Life-history of Hydrobius fuscipes, L.' Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Vol. 47: 317-340 (1910). Mostly short papers.

William Alexander Francis (more)

The Biology of the Coleoptera

by Crowson, R.A.

Cat No. : 52849, Published : 1981, Illustrations : b/w photos, 319 text figs, tables (1 folding)

Hardback £360.00

Scarce classic work. (more)

Coleoptera Atlantidum, being an Enumeration of the Coleopterous Insects of the Madeiras, Salvages, and Canaries

by Wollaston, T. Vernon

Cat No. : 52548, Published : 1865, Illustrations : 1 map

Hardback £595.00

First edition. Rare. 'Considering that scarcely more than a year has elapsed since the publication (by the Trustees of the British Museum) of my volume on the Coleopterous insects of the Canaries, I (more)

Catalogue of the Coleopterous Insects of the Canaries in the Collection of the British Museum

by Wollaston, T. Vernon

Cat No. : 52547, Published : 1864

Hardback £295.00

Scarce. Thomas Vernon Wollaston (1822-1878) was a conchologist and entomologist. Due to ill health he spent a number of winters in Madeira and other north Atlantic Islands. Wollaston published over (more)

Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile. Pt I-VII

by Various authors

Cat No. : 51511, Published : 1929-1951, Illustrations : 85 b/w plates, numerous text figs

Hardback £225.00

In 1926 a joint expedition was arranged by the British Museum (Natural History) and the Bacteriological Institute of the National Department of Hygiene, Argentina, with the aim of collecting insects (more)

Insect Life: Souvenirs of a Naturalist

by Fabre, J.-H.

Cat No. : 53008, Published : 1906, Illustrations : 16 b/w plates

Hardback £45.00

Reprint. First published in 1901. Translated from the French by the author of 'Mademoiselle Mori', with a preface by David Sharp and edited by F. Merrifield. Illustrations by M. Prendergast Parker. (more)

The Fly-Fisher's Entomology

by Ronalds, Alfred

Cat No. : 51509, Published : 1877, Illustrations : hand-col frontis + 19 hand-col plates

Hardback £195.00

With coloured representations of the natural and artificial insect, and a few observations and instructions on Trout and Grayling Fishing. Eighth edition. Publisher's 'List of Works' bound at rear (more)

Bumblebees (New Naturalist 40)

by Free, J.B.; Butler, C.G.

Cat No. : 52286, Published : 1959, Illustrations : col frontis, 24 b/w plates, 3 text figs

Hardback £75.00

First edition. Jacket design by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. (more)

Dragonflies: Behaviour and Ecology of Odonata

by Corbet, P.S.

Cat No. : 52858, Published : 1999, Illustrations : 16 plates of col photos, text figs

Hardback £120.00

First edition. Major reference work on dragonfly biology. (more)

Flowers of the Brazilian Forest

by Mee, Margaret

Cat No. : 53156, Published : 1968, Illustrations : col frontis + 31 col plates

Hardback £600.00

Fine colour plates of recently discovered, or previously unillustrated examples of the Brazilian flora collected and painted by Margaret Mee. Foreword on the Brazilian forests by Roberto Burle Marx, (more)

European Ferns

by Britten, J.

Cat No. : 52972, Published : [1881], Illustrations : 30 col plates, text illus

Hardback £175.00

Originally issued in parts 1879-1881. With attractive chromolithographic plates drawn from nature by D. Blair and woodcuts to text.

Stafleu & Cowan, 771. (more)

Transactions of the British Bryological Society. Vol. 2-6 [continued as] Journal of Bryology. Vol. 7-16

by

Cat No. : 52748, Published : 1952-1991, Illustrations : b/w photos, text figs, maps

Hardback £300.00

Gulls (New Naturalist 139)

by Coulson, J.C.

Cat No. : 52649, Published : 2019, Illustrations : col photos, col illus

Hardback £65.00

The gull is a familiar sight by the seaside, and one of the most recognisable bird species, but most people know surprisingly little about the lives and habits of these seafaring birds. Professor (more)

Beautiful Birds Described. Vol. I-III

by Cotton, John; Tyas, Robert (Ed.)

Cat No. : 53057, Published : n.d. (c.1880s?), Illustrations : 36 plain lithographic plates, text figs

Hardback £120.00

Edited from the Manuscript of John Cotton, F.Z.S. Illustrations by James Andrews, F.R.H.S.

Includes chiefly British (with a few foreign) birds. This work was first published in 36 monthly parts (more)

A Monograph of the Pheasants. Vol. I-IV

by Beebe, W.

Cat No. : 51436, Published : 1918-1922, Illustrations : 90 col, 88 b/w plates, 20 maps

Hardback £2,400.00

Limited edition of 600 numbered copies (no. 293). Titles printed in red and black, chromolithographic or collotype plates by A. Thorburn, G.E. Lodge, H. Gronvold, L.A. Fuertes, Chas. R. Knight, H. (more)

Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and their Eggs. Vol. I-VII

by Meyer, H.L.

Cat No. : 51498, Published : 1842-1850, Illustrations : 425 hand-col plates (322 birds, 103 eggs), 7 plain plates, title vignettes

Hardback £2,400.00

First octavo edition, complete in 7 volumes. Fine hand-coloured plates of birds (322) and eggs (103). Also with cancel of plate facing p. 50 in Vol. II.

Nissen IVB 628. (more)

A Monograph of the Turdidae. Or Family of Thrushes. Vol. I-II

by Seebohm, Henry; Sharpe, R. Bowdler (Ed.)

Cat No. : 52155, Published : [1898]-1902, Illustrations : engraved portrait frontis, 149 hand-col lithographic plates

Hardback £11,500.00

First edition. Fine hand-coloured lithographic plates, heightened in gum arabic by and after renowned bird illustrator, J.G. Keulemans, printed by Hanhart, Mintern Brothers or Judd and Co. The work (more)

The Game Birds of the British Isles

by Harrison, J.C.

Cat No. : 51514, Published : 1989, Illustrations : 25 col plates, head and tail pieces

Hardback £300.00

Text by Colin Laurie McKelvie, Memoir by the Honourable Aylmer Tryon. No. 475 of a limited edition of 475 copies. (more)

Stories about Birds

by

Cat No. : 53151, Published : n.d. [pre 1849], Illustrations : 15 hand-coloured vignettes

Paperback £125.00

Printed by B. Fawcett, Driffield. Each page is illustrated with ornate illustrative woodcut borders printed in a colour, type in black; the 17 engravings of birds are hand-coloured. There are eight (more)

The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter. Vol. I-III

by Darwin, Francis

Cat No. : 15195, Published : 1887, Illustrations : 3 portrait frontispieces, 1 plate, 3 text illus

Hardback £175.00

Fifth thousand revised, with errata corrected (second issue of the first edition, published in the same year as the first). Complete in 3 volumes.

Freeman 1453. (more)

More Letters of Charles Darwin. Vol. I-II. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters

by Darwin, Francis; Seward, A.C. (Eds)

Cat No. : 53041, Published : 1903, Illustrations : 2 frontispieces, 13 plates, text figs

Hardback £120.00

First edition. Sequel to Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887). The plate of Joseph Hooker in vol. II, p. 243 is not mentioned in the list of plates. Errata slip in Vol. II. Sir Francis (more)

Atlas of India: containing sixteen maps and complete index

by Hunter, W.W.

Cat No. : 52343, Published : 1894, Illustrations : 16 double-page col maps

Hardback £550.00

First edition. A detailed atlas of India, with 16 double-page colour maps. Text leaves and plates mounted on guards. With an introduction by Sir William Wilson Hunter, a historian and member of the (more)

Alone in the Sleeping-Sickness Country

by Oswald, Felix

Cat No. : 52398, Published : 1915, Illustrations : frontis + 39 plates of b/w photos, folding map

Hardback £95.00

First edition. An account of the author's travels in East Africa among the native Kavirondo, while carrying out a geological investigation on behalf of the British Museum, of some Miocene deposits (more)

The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton

by [White, Gilbert]

Cat No. : 52249, Published : 1789, Illustrations : folding engraved frontis, 2 half-titles with engraved vignettes, 6 engraved plates (1 folding)

Hardback £2,000.00

First edition. Gilbert White (1720-1793) is widely regarded as the father of ecology and the forerunner of all modern natural historians. The present work is one of the most popular books in the (more)

Arachnida. Series No. 1-4. British Spiders (Set N1-N4) [Postcards]

by British Museum (Natural History)

Cat No. : 53162, Published : 1928

£100.00

Four sets of postcards on British spiders and webs issued by the British Museum (Natural History), each set consisting of five cards (cards numbered 1-20). Each set in original printed envelope, with (more)

A further selection from Barry Goater's Library

Macrolepidoptera of the World II-IV: The Macrolepidoptera of the Palearctic Region [with] Supplement to Vol. III + IV (part)

by Seitz, A.

Cat No. : 52481, Published : 1912-1938, Illustrations : 208 (of 235) fine chromolithographed plates

Hardback £950.00

Vol. II: Palearctic Bombyces & Sphinges; Vol. III: Palearctic Noctuae; Vol. IV: Palearctic Geometrae, with the Supplement to Vol. III + IV (Supplement to Vol. IV incomplete with pp. 1-248 (lacking (more)

Essai sur la Classification des Pyralites

by Ragonot, E.-L.

Cat No. : 52423, Published : 1891-1892, Illustrations : 4 hand-col plates

Hardback £120.00

Text French. From Annales de la societe entomologique de France. Two parts plus supplement. Rare. (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. : 52437, 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)

Catalogus der Nederlandsche [Nederlandse] Macrolepidoptera I-XI [with] Supplement 1-16

by Lempke, B.J.

Cat No. : 52625, Published : 1936-1970, Illustrations : b/w plates, 164 text figs

Hardback £400.00

Text Dutch. Scarce catalogue of the Dutch Lepidoptera. Complete with all Supplements. From Tijdschrift voor Entomologie (more)

Lepidoptera of Dorsetshire. Or A Catalogue of Butterflies and Moths Found in the County of Dorset

by Dale, C.W.

Cat No. : 52427, Published : 1886

Hardback £120.00

First edition. Scarce. With an appendix containing a few of the chief rarities of the other orders of insects. (more)

The Lepidoptera of the British Islands. Vol. III-VI: Noctuae

by Barrett, C.G.

Cat No. : 52668, Published : 1896-1900, Illustrations : 192 hand-col plates

Hardback £360.00

Large paper illustrated edition. These four volumes include the entire section on Noctuae (Noctuidae). (more)

The Lepidoptera of the British Islands. Vol. VIII: Heterocera Geometrina

by Barrett, C.G.

Cat No. : 52679, Published : 1904, Illustrations : 48 hand-col plates

Hardback £90.00

Large paper, illustrated edition with fine hand-coloured lithographic plates by E.C. Knight (1879 fl.-1915 fl.) (more)

The Lepidoptera of the British Islands. Vol. IX: Heterocera Geometrina-Pyralidina

by Barrett, C.G.

Cat No. : 52680, Published : 1904, Illustrations : 48 hand-col plates

Hardback £90.00

Large paper, illustrated edition with fine hand-coloured lithographic plates E.C. Knight (1879 fl.-1915 fl.) (more)

Svenska Fjarilar: Systematisk Bearbetning av Sveriges Storfjarilar, Macrolepidoptera

by Nordstrom, F.; Wahlgren, E.; Tullgren, A.

Cat No. : 52464, Published : 1941, Illustrations : 50 fine col plates, 435 text figs, 12 maps

Hardback £150.00

Text Swedish. (more)

Nota Lepidopterologica. Revue de la Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica. Vol. 1-4, 6-40

by

Cat No. : 52705, Published : 1977-2020, Illustrations : col + b/w photos, text figs

£350.00

A good long run from Vol. 1 to 40, lacking Vol. 1, Pt 1 (supplied in photocopy) and Vol. 5. Includes Supplements 1-5. (more)

Esperiana Memoir Vol 1 - 5

by Mey, W. (Ed.)

Cat No. : 52607, Published : 2004-2010, Illustrations : col plates, b/w genitalia photos, distribution maps, text figs

Hardback £325.00

Vol. 1: Lepidoptera African Pt 1: The Lepidoptera of the Brandberg Massif, Namibia Pt 1; Vol. 2: Lepidoptera African Pt 2: Revision und Phylogenie der Gattungsgruppe Crypsotidia, (more)

Mariposas de la Peninsula Iberica. Tomo IV-V: Heteroceros II-III

by Gomez Bustillo, M.R.; Arroyo Vaarela, M.; Yela Garcia, J.L.

Cat No. : 52604, Published : 1979, Illustrations : col photos, line drawings, distribution maps

Hardback £70.00

Vol. II (M.R. Gomez Bustillo): Noctuoidea (pt. 1: Notodontidae, Thaumetopoeidae, Dilobidae, Lymantriidae, Arctiidae, Hypsidae, Endrosidae, Nolidae); Vol. III (M.R. Gomez Bustillo, M. Arroyo Vaarela & (more)

Svenska Fjarilar: Systematisk Bearbetning av Sveriges Storfjarilar, Macrolepidoptera

by Nordstrom, F.; Wahlgren, E.; Tullgren, A.

Cat No. : 52464, Published : 1941, Illustrations : 50 fine col plates, 435 text figs, 12 maps

Hardback £150.00

Text Swedish. (more)

British Tortricoid Moths [Vol. 1+2]

by Bradley, J.D.; Tremewan, W.G.; Smith, A.

Cat No. : 52387, Published : 1973-1979, Illustrations : 42 col + 48 b/w plates, text figs

Hardback £140.00

Vol. 1: Cochylidae and Tortricidae: Tortricinae; Vol. 2: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae. Scarce as a set. Vol. 2 is particularly difficult to obtain as it was issued in a much smaller print run than vol. (more)

Klucze do Oznaczania Owadów Polski XXVII: Motyle - Lepidoptera, 46a-c: Geometridae

by Bleszynski, S.

Cat No. : 52388, Published : 1960, 1965, 1966, Illustrations : 1864 line drawings

Hardback £70.00

Text Polish. Keys for identifying Polish insects - 3 parts on Geometridae: 46a, Braphinae, Orthostixinae, Geometrinae, Sterrhinae; 46b, Hydriomeninae; 46c, Selidoseminae. (more)

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