Collectable Natural History Books - July 2023

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Varieties of British Butterflies

by Frohawk, F.W.

Cat No. : 54710, Published : [1946], Illustrations : 48 col plates

Hardback £65.00

Dated 1938, but this is the later reprint (remaining stock of the first printing was destroyed during the second world war). (more)

Natural History of British Butterflies. Vol. I-II

by Frohawk, F.W.

Cat No. : 54794, Published : [1924], Illustrations : 60 colour + 5 plain plates

Hardback £450.00

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 History of British Moths

by Morris, F.O.

Cat No. : 54365, Published : 1903, Illustrations : 132 hand-coloured plates

Hardback £240.00

6th edition with introduction by W.E. Kirby. Hand-colouring in this edition is not quite as good as in the earlier editions. (more)

British Butterflies and Moths: An introduction to the study of our native Lepidoptera

by Stainton, H.T.

Cat No. : 53630, Published : n.d. (c. 1900s), Illustrations : 16 hand-col plates

Hardback £40.00

Second edition, undated (Publisher's ads to rear include titles published in the 1890s and early 1900s; first edition was published in 1867). Hand-coloured plates by E.W. Robinson.

Freeman 3535. (more)

Butterflies of the Holarctic Region: Vol. 1-3

by d'Abrera, B.

Cat No. : 53993, Published : 1990-1993, Illustrations : colour plates

Hardback £345.00

Complete set on Holarctic Butterflies from the Butterflies of the World series. (more)

Butterflies of the Oriental Region. Parts 1-3

by d'Abrera, B.

Cat No. : 53992, Published : 1982-1986, Illustrations : col photos throughout

Hardback £395.00

Complete set on the butterflies of the Oriental Region (including the scarce Pt I) from the Butterflies of the World series (more)

A Revision of the African species of the Lycaenesthes group of the Lycaenidae

by Bethune-Baker, G.T.

Cat No. : 50982, Published : 1910, Illustrations : 13 plates (3 col)

Paperback £35.00

Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1910. Chromolithographic plates by E.C. Knight, printed by West, Newman. (more)

The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4(1+2), 5(1+2), 7(1+2), 9, 10

by Heath, J.; Emmet, A.M.; Langmaid, J.R.; Bland, K.P.

Cat No. : 55056, Published : 1976-2014, Illustrations : col plates, text figs, maps

Hardback £550.00

Standard work on British and Irish Butterflies and Moths. All volumes published to date: 1: Micropterigidae - Heliozelidae; 2: Cossidae - Heliodinidae; 3: Yponomeutidae - Elachistidae; 4: (more)

Moths and Memories

by Allan, P.B.M.

Cat No. : 54603, Published : 1948, Illustrations : b/w frontis

Hardback £40.00

First edition. (more)

Chrysomelidae Biology: 1: The Classification, Phylogeny and Genetics; 2: Ecological Studies; 3: General Studies

by Jolivet, P.; Cox, M.L. (Eds)

Cat No. : 54573, Published : 1996, Illustrations : text figs, line drawings

Hardback £240.00

The Coleoptera of the British Islands. Vol. I-VI

by Fowler, W.W.; Donisthorpe, H.

Cat No. : 54611, Published : 1887-1913, Illustrations : 205 uncoloured plates

Hardback £900.00

The rare illustrated, large paper edition, but with plates uncoloured (200 of the plates are usually hand-coloured). (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. : 48540, Published : 1932-1995, Illustrations : 169 plates of line drawings, 1 map

£240.00

Vol. I: Text; Vol. II: Plates. 1st edition. Includes the 1995 Supplement, 'New British Beetles' by Hodge & Jones, which includes species not in Joy's original Handbook. (more)

Palaearctic Chrysomelidae. Identification Keys. Vol. 1-2

by Warchalowski, A.

Cat No. : 54574, Published : 2010, Illustrations : 5500+ text figs, 102 col plates (918 photos)

Hardback £350.00

2 volumes, complete. Identification key to the leaf beetles occuring in the Palaearctic region. Based on the author's earlier work (2003), but enlarged to include Palaearctic Asia. Includes species (more)

Bugs & the Victorians

by Clark, J.F.

Cat No. : 54658, Published : 2009, Illustrations : 48 b/w illus.

Hardback £50.00

Explores how science became increasingly important in nineteenth-century British culture and how the systematic study of insects permitted entomologists to engage with the most pressing questions of (more)

Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls. From the Letters and Journals of the late Frank Oates. Appendix IV Entomology

by Westwood, J.O.; [Oates, Frank]

Cat No. : 50980, Published : 1889, Illustrations : 4 hand-col plates, 1 plain plate, hand-col folding map

Paperback £125.00

With additions by A. Sidney Olliff and W.L. Distant. Appendix IV Entomology (pp. 338-389, Extracted from Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls, second edition). Fine hand coloured lithographic (more)

The Hymenoptera Aculeata of the British Islands

by Saunders, E.

Cat No. : 55186, Published : 1896, Illustrations : 51 hand-col + 3 plain plates

Hardback £550.00

Rare large paper edition, with hand coloured plates. Illustrations by R. Morgan. (more)

Comparative external morphology, phylogeny, and a classification of the bees (Hymenoptera)

by Michener, C.D.

Cat No. : 53247, Published : 1944, Illustrations : 259 line drawings

Hardback £50.00

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Vol. 82: 151-326. This work introduced the modern higher-level classification of bees. (more)

The Bee Genera of North and Central America (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)

by Michener, C.D.; McGinley, R.J.; Danforth, B.N.

Cat No. : 53255, Published : 1994, Illustrations : 519 text figs

Hardback £100.00

Text English/Spanish. Scarce. (more)

Collection of over 1,400 reprints of short and medium sized papers on Siphonaptera (Fleas)

by

Cat No. : 54675, Published : c. 1924-2007

£650.00

Bob George (d. 2013) was a British World War Two fighter pilot and later a school science teacher. He became an authority on British fleas. This was his collection of reprints of approximately 1,400 (more)

The Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. I-III

by Roberts, M.J.

Cat No. : 55048, Published : 1985-1987, Illustrations : 241 col plates, 194 text figs

Hardback £180.00

Vol. I: Atypidae - Theridiosomatidae; Vol. II: Linyphiidae; Vol. III: Colour Plates. (more)

Report on the Interdepartmental Committee on Research and Development in the Dependencies of the Falkland Islands, with Appendices, Maps, &c.

by Interdepartmental Committee on Research and Development in the Dependencies of the Falkland Islands

Cat No. : 55061, Published : 1920, Illustrations : 4 maps (1 folding), 1 plate

Hardback £120.00

Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty. April, 2020. [Cmd. 657]. The principal lands and islands included in the dependencies of the Falkland islands are: South Georgia, the South Shetland (more)

The Naturalist on the River Amazons. A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature under the Equator, during Eleven Years of Travel

by Bates, Henry Walter

Cat No. : 54187, Published : 1891, Illustrations : frontis, wood engravings (8 full-page)

Hardback £175.00

Sixth edition. Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) was an English entomologist and explorer, who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals (Batesian mimicry). Best known for his expedition (more)

The Origin of Species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life

by Darwin, Charles

Cat No. : 41560, Published : 1929, Illustrations : portrait frontis, 1 double-page plate

Hardback £110.00

The last Murray printing of the 6th edition (Popular Impression), with final list of 20th century issues.

Freeman, 543. (more)

On the Avifauna of the Outer Hebridies, 1888-1902

by Harvie-Brown, J.A.

Cat No. : 54534, Published : 1903, Illustrations : 2 text figs

Paperback £75.00

Reprinted from The Annals of Scottish Natural History, April (pp. 83-91), July (pp. 136-151), October (pp. 199-217) 1902, and January (pp. 7-22) 1903. Scarce.

Mullens & Swann p. 283. (more)

The Grouse in Health and Disease being the Final Report of the Committee of Inquiry on Grouse Disease. Vol. I-II

by Committee of Inquiry on Grouse Disease

Cat No. : 55172, Published : 1911, Illustrations : col frontis, 58 plates (many col), 31 text figs, 41 maps

Hardback £220.00

First edition. Introduction by Lord Lovat. Colour illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. A detailed survey on the life history of the grouse, causes of mortality, diseases, and the management and (more)

Birds and the War

by Gladstone, H.S.

Cat No. : 53325, Published : 1919, Illustrations : b/w frontis, 14 b/w plates (16 photos)

Hardback £65.00

First edition. Scarce. A fascinating and poignant work. At the start of the First World War, Hugh Stewart Gladstone commenced, ‘to collect all the information I could regarding its effects upon bird (more)

Sketch-Book of British Birds

by Sharpe, R. Bowdler

Cat No. : 53486, Published : 1898, Illustrations : col frontis, numerous col text figs

Hardback £75.00

First edition. Coloured illustrations by A.F. and C. Lydon. Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847-1909) was a British ornithologist and museum curator, author of some of 19th century's finest books on birds, (more)

The Birds of Wordsworth: Poetically, Mythologically, and Comparatively Examined

by Wintringham, W.H.

Cat No. : 53213, Published : 1892, Illustrations : map

Hardback £150.00

Limited edition of 250 signed and numbered copies, this copy No. 21. Scarce.

Mullens & Swann p. 654. (more)

Della piantagione e coltivazione de' gelsi in Toscana cagione di ricchezza

by Manni, Domenico Maria

Cat No. : 40447, Published : 1767

Hardback £75.00

Text Italian. Rare. This book discusses plantation and cultivation of mulberries in relation to the silk industry, a great generator of wealth during the 18th-century. Domenico Maria Manni (more)

Icones selectae Fungorum. Tome I-VI

by Konrad, P.; Maublanc, A.

Cat No. : 53742, Published : 1985-1987, Illustrations : 500 col plates

Hardback £250.00

Reprint edition. Originally published by Paul Lechevalier, Paris, 1924-1937. Text French. More than 500 species of uncommon basidiomycetes described and illustrated with excellent colour plates, (more)

Moss Flora of the Maritime Provinces

by Ireland, R.R.

Cat No. : 54308, Published : 1982, Illustrations : 415 pages of line drawings

Hardback £150.00

National Museum of Natural Sciences Publications in Botany, No. 13. Manual to the moss flora of the Canadian Maritime Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. Includes 381 (more)

The Naturalist on The Thames

by Cornish, C.J.

Cat No. : 53807, Published : 1902, Illustrations : b/w frontis, 23 b/w photographic plates

Hardback £30.00

First edition. (more)

Ocean Gardens: The History of the Marine Aquarium

by Humphreys, H.N.

Cat No. : 54188, Published : 1857, Illustrations : 12 hand-col plates, wood-engraved tailpieces to each chapter

Hardback £180.00

First edition. Published only three years after P.H. Gosse's, The Aquarium (1854), which began this Victorian craze, this scarce, finely illustrated work includes attractive, hand-coloured (more)

London Birds and Beasts

by Tristram-Valentine, J.T.

Cat No. : 55180, Published : 1895

Hardback £40.00

First edition. Scarce. The first part of the work compromises "Notes from the Zoo", the second part on London Birds being the result of personal observations during his "Almost daily walk from (more)

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