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New Books March 2023
Welcome to our March Newsletter, with a selection of new and forthcoming titles.
Highlights include:
* 4th volume of Geoff Kibby's Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and Europe - due next week.
* A new 3rd edition of the AIDGAP guide British Plant Galls.
* the new 2-volume two-volume Plant Atlas 2022 - a survey of the wild plants of Britain and Ireland.
* Making Entomologists - a fascinating look at how entomological periodicals helped shape 19th century scientific communites.
Our shop in Iver is open and customers are welcome visit and browse our stock.
Julie and Ian Johnson
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by Kibby, G.
Cat No. : 44539, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col illus throughout
Hardback £27.95
This final volume will cover the third part on the agarics or gilled mushrooms (Basidiomycetes: Bolbitaceae, Inocybaceae and Entolomataceae). A unique, fully illustrated guide with paintings of the (more)
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by Redfern, M.; Shirley, P.; Bloxham, M.
Cat No. : 53809, Published : 2023, Illustrations : b/w line drawings
Paperback £30.00
3rd edition. Many naturalists recognise the commoner plant galls, like Oak Apples and Robin’s Pin Cushions. But there are many more. Some are tiny and require diligent searching. They occur on all (more)
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by Wale, M.
Cat No. : 51387, Published : 2022, Illustrations : b/w figs
Hardback £41.00
Popular natural history periodicals in the nineteenth century had an incredible democratizing power. By welcoming contributions from correspondents regardless of their background, they posed a (more)
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by Balletto, E.; Barbero, F.; Bonelli, S.; Casacci, L.P.; Dapporto, L.
Cat No. : 53333, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col plates + line drawings
Hardback £165.00
Text English. Presents the current state of knowledge on Italian butterflies, providing detailed information on their morphology, biology, ecology, ethology, genetics, distribution and conservation (more)
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by Sargerson, J. (Ed.)
Cat No. : 53377, Published : MAR 2023, Illustrations : 150+ col photos
Paperback £8.00
Articles in the magazine include: Excursions to several Swiss sites in Valais and Bern and a monthly description of the Corfu Butterfly Year. A butterfly holiday in Herzegovina is featured. The (more)
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by Stroh, P.A.; Walker, K.J.; Humphrey,T.A.; Pescott, O.L.; Burkmar, R.J.
Cat No. : 52861, Published : MAR 2023, Illustrations : 5400+ col illus, 2709 maps
Hardback £95.00
£132.00 (Save £37.00)
An authoritative two-volume survey of the wild plants of Britain and Ireland. Plant Atlas 2020 presents the results of field surveys by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, building on (more)
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by Feulner, G.R.; Roobas, B.; Hitchings, V.; Otto, H.H.H.; Campbell, O.; Roberts, H.G.B.; Hornby, R.J.; Howarth, B.
Cat No. : 52869, Published : 2021, Illustrations : col photos, b/w illus
Paperback £69.95
The first comprehensive, illustrated account of the butterflies found in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and adjacent areas of Northern Oman. Featuring 58 species in the main checklist, these include (more)
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by McNally, P.
Cat No. : 52763, Published : 2021, Illustrations : 500+ col photos
Paperback £29.95
Field guide covering over 180 species found in this unique and often ignored region with hight biodiversity. The region acts as a biological crossroads for species from Latin America, the Rocky (more)
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by Slater, M.; Warmington, K.
Cat No. : 53338, Published : 2022, Illustrations : 13 col illus, 368 col photos
Hardback £39.95
Butterfly Conservation documents, celebrates and shares the many successes the Warwickshire Branch of Butterfly Conservation has had in conserving our rarer butterflies over the past 25 years. (more)
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by Slamka, F.
Cat No. : 53167, Published : 2022, Illustrations : 12 col + 53 b/w plates
Paperback £52.00
Text English/German. 4th revised edition. Descriptions and photos of the 420 species known from Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Czech republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia). (more)
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by Macadam, C.R.; Feeley, H.B.; Doe, J.
Cat No. : 52549, Published : 2022, Illustrations : line drawings, col photos, distribution maps
Paperback £45.00
Plecoptera (Stoneflies) are an extremely important component of British and Irish freshwaters, and are most common in clean headwater streams and on stony and rocky shorelines of lakes. This book (more)
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by Packer, L.
Cat No. : 51007, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 217 col + 10 b/w illus, 106 maps
Hardback £18.75
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A beautifully illustrated introduction to the incredible variety of bees from around the world. When many people think of bees, they are likely to picture the western domesticated honey bee, (more)
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by Campbell, H.; Blanchard, B.
Cat No. : 51406, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 215 col illus, 44 maps
Hardback £21.00
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A richly illustrated natural history of ants, covering their diversity, ecology, anatomy, behavior, and more. Plentiful and familiar, ants make up an estimated one-third of the world’s insect (more)
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by Evans, A.V.
Cat No. : 50187, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 150+ col illus
Hardback £22.50
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A richly illustrated introduction to the incredible world of beetles. With some 400,000 species, beetles are among the largest and most successful groups of organisms on earth, making up (more)
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by Peeters, I.
Cat No. : 53182, Published : 2022, Illustrations : 389 col photos, col illus + distribution maps
Paperback £69.00
Phegea 50 (Supplement). Text English. (more)
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by Jiroux, E. (Ed.)
Cat No. : 53792, Published : 2022, Illustrations : 200+ col photos
Paperback £38.00
Text French. Fifth volume on the Coleoptera of Corsica. Illustrates 92 taxa of Buprestids found in Corsica. Also updates the previous 4 volumes, with 12 species added. (more)
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by McGavin, G.
Cat No. : 52470, Published : 2023
Hardback £14.99
Insects conquered the Earth long before we did and will remain here long after we're gone. They outnumber us in the billions and are essential to many of the natural processes that keep us alive (more)
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by McGavin, G.C.; Davranoglou, L.-R.; Lewington, R. (Illus.)
Cat No. : 51385, Published : 2022
Paperback £34.99
2nd revised edition. Comprising well over half of all known animal species, insects are the most successful organisms on the planet. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that one cannot study (more)
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by Athanassiou, C.G; Nayak, M.K
Cat No. : 52469, Published : 2023
Hardback £95.00
Psocids have become widespread pests of stored products during the last two decades, yet little was known about their biology and management until this change in their pest status. The aim of this (more)
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by Barber, A.D.
Cat No. : 53471, Published : 2022, Illustrations : 136 col photos, 138 col illus, 61 col distribution maps, 94 col tables
Paperback £35.00
Covers all 55 species, including those only occurring in heated greenhouses and buildings. Also includes 'doubtful' species, as well as chance introductions. Coverage extends to all of Great Britain (more)
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by von Proschwitz, T.; Roth, J.; Lundin, K.
Cat No. : 53559, Published : MAY 2023, Illustrations : col photos, col illus, maps
Hardback £69.00
Text Swedish with species summaries in English. The second volume on molluscs presents the Gastropod subclass Heterobranchia. The 193 species are presented in a systematic order and are described (more)
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by Diego, C.; Lopez, E.; San Martin, G.; Parapar, J.
Cat No. : 53363, Published : 2022, Illustrations : line drawings
Hardback £48.50
Text Spanish. Annelida Polychaeta VI represents a new step forward, within the Iberian Fauna series, in the synthesis of the knowledge of the marine annelids of the Iberian coast and the Balearic (more)
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by Trueman, I.C.; Poulton, M.W.; Hodder, M.; Large, L.; Hancock, S.A.; Phipps, S.M.
Cat No. : 51393, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £17.00
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Sutton Park National Nature Reserve is a botanical jewel in the urban midlands supporting a treasure trove of botanical diversity. At over 400 pages, this book includes chapters on the flowering (more)
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by Bradshaw, M.E.
Cat No. : 53602, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 330+ photos
Paperback £11.99
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A definitive and richly illustrated guide to the botanically unique area of Upper Teesdale in England's County Durham. To anyone who loves the wild flowers of Great Britain and Ireland, there are (more)
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by Dunayev, E., Orlova, V.
Cat No. : 51228, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 600 col photos, distribution maps
Hardback £98.00
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Revised and updated edition. The original edition has been completely updated, there is a distribution map for each species and the book has been supplemented with the most extensive bibliography (more)
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by O'Shea, M.
Cat No. : 51479, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 282 col illus, 7 b/w illus, 53 maps
Hardback £17.50
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A gorgeously illustrated guide to the incredible diversity of snakes around the world. Snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica and have evolved to occupy a vast range of habitats, (more)
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by Costa, J.T.
Cat No. : 51478, Published : MAR 2023, Illustrations : 36 col illus, 62 b/w illus, 3 maps
Hardback £28.00
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A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selection. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the (more)
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by Malonza, P.K.; Bwong, B.A.
Cat No. : 53555, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 700+ col photos, map
Hardback £86.00
Combines information on the amphibians and reptiles of Kenya, providing both visitors to the country and Kenyans with one comprehensive field guide. The photos and range information will assist (more)
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by Pitt, M.
Cat No. : 52963, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col photos, col maps
Paperback £26.95
The Crossbill Guide Southern Morocco covers the part of Morocco that lies roughly south of the city of Marrakech. It includes the High Atlas and Anti-Atlas Mountains, the bird-rich High Steppe (more)
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by Pienkowski, M.
Cat No. : 52589, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 200 col photos, 40 col illus
Hardback £29.99
Foreword by Rt Hon. the Lord Randall of Uxbridge PC. In 2020, looking back over more than 30 years of the project, RSPB described the Red Kite project as "the biggest species success story in UK (more)
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by Shrubsole, G.
Cat No. : 52919, Published : 2022, Illustrations : 16 col plates, col illus, col maps
Hardback £16.50
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From the bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgotten rainforests - and an inspiring intervention to help restore them to the places they once were. In (more)
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by Benton, T.; Owens, N.
Cat No. : 48849, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col photos, col illus
Hardback £46.99
£65.00 (Save £18.01)
Cat No. : 48850, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col photos, col illus
Paperback £26.99
£35.00 (Save £8.01)
Bees, for most people, mean honey or bumble bees. In fact, the honey bees and bumblebees make up only a small proportion of the bee species that live in Britain, while the other bees are the great (more)
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by Baird, K.
Cat No. : 51002, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 8 page col plate section, b/w photos
Hardback £14.99
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Why do butterflies bask in the limelight as mood-lifting colourful insects associated with bright flowers and sunny days, when the near-identical moths are relegated to be cast as their drab and (more)
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by McPherson, S.
Cat No. : 49585, Published : MAR 2023, Illustrations : 3000+ col photos
Hardback £149.97
Three volumes. Nepenthes – The Tropical Pitcher Plants is a seminal, three volume work that documents all currently recognised species of Nepenthes for the first time. Fifteen years in the (more)
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by Bouillard, N.
Cat No. : 51490, Published : APR 2023, Illustrations : col photos
Paperback £21.99
Can one undertake a round-the-world trip with conservation uppermost in the mind? This is exactly what Nils Bouillard sought to do in 2019, adapting a popular concept in birding known as the 'big (more)
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by Reynolds, R.G.; Henderson, R.W.; Díaz, L.M.; Rodríguez-Cabrera, T.M.; Puente-Rolón, A.R.
Cat No. : 51489, Published : APR 2023, Illustrations : 122 col illus, 21 maps
Hardback £54.00
Boas of the West Indies is a comprehensive survey of boid snakes, commonly known as boas, found on the islands of the Lucayan Archipelago, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles. (more)
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by Cannon, R.J.
Cat No. : 51454, Published : MAY 2023
Hardback £175.00
This book explores mate-finding and courtship behaviour in the insect world, in all its subtlety and diversity. Insects engage in courtship as much, or as little, as any other animal; they have (more)
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by Fawcett Williams, K.
Cat No. : 51015, Published : APR 2023, Illustrations : col illus
Hardback £75.00
Cat No. : 51020, Published : JUN 2023, Illustrations : col illus
Paperback £35.00
Thermal imaging is an exciting technology that can be applied as a powerful tool in a growing number of wildlife research, ecology and management applications. It allows us to see things that have (more)
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by Parsons, M.; Clancy, S.
Cat No. : 49336, Published : SPRING 2023, Illustrations : col photos, distribution maps
Hardback £50.00
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The first comprehensive review of this popular group of moths in Britain and Ireland since Barry Goater’s British Pyralid Moths (Harley Books, 1986). This new publication will include specimens and (more)
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by Lewington, R.
Cat No. : 51013, Published : 2023, Illustrations : Col illus + maps
Paperback £8.99
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With contributions from Dave Goulson and Gill Perkins, founder and CEO of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust respectively, this illustrated pocket guide is the ideal companion for anyone interested in (more)
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by Peterken, G.
Cat No. : 51486, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 300 col photos, illustrations, maps
Hardback £32.00
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Features almost 300 colour photographs and brings together more than 60 years of research by a leading voice in British woodland ecology. Trees define woodland. They provide a complex, (more)
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by Petersen, J.H.
Cat No. : 52670, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 429 col photos, 45 b/w illus
Hardback £12.95
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A richly illustrated guide to edible mushrooms by one of Europe's leading fungi experts. In this beautifully illustrated introductory guide, Jens Petersen shows how to successfully identify and (more)
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by Hsu, Y.F.; Huang, C.L.; Liang, J.Y.; Shen, Z.Y.
Cat No. : 49505, Published : 2021, Illustrations : col plates
Hardback £95.00
Text English/Chinese. Fifth and final part (in 2 volumes: Text and Plates) to complete this series on the butterfly fauna of Taiwan. Includes an introduction to each species with Chinese names and (more)
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by Raffaelli, J.
Cat No. : 52389, Published : 2022, Illustrations : 4000+ col photos, 154 maps
Hardback £120.00
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Over 900 species illustrated. Jean Raffaelli, a French herpetologist, journalist and author, was born on July 2, 1954 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. After many years spent in Africa during his childhood (more)
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by Brock, P.; Büscher, T.H.
Cat No. : 51308, Published : 2022, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £79.00
A comprehensive guide to the biology of phasmids. This book covers phasmid biology (anatomy, main biological functions, ecology) as well as advice on collecting and rearing phasmids. Over 260 (more)
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by Pils, G.
Cat No. : 51500, Published : 2022, Illustrations : 7150 col illus
Hardback £98.00
With c. 4460 taxa (species and subspecies) of vascular plants, Morocco is clearly the most species-rich country in North Africa. This book opens the door to a more profound knowledge of its flora, (more)
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