New Books - December 2023

New Titles

Butterflies of the Levant and Neighbouring Areas (Southern Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, North-west Saudi Arabia & Cyprus). Vol. IV: Lycaenidae

by Benyamini, D.

Cat No. : 47179, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 1413 col photos

Hardback £115.00

Vol. IV includes 91 species and subspecies of Lycaenidae, including 4 possible species and 2 new subspecies.

Part 4 of a 4-volume series. This unique series includes for the first time all (more)

Moths of Europe. Vol. 8: Microlepidoptera 2

by Leraut, P.

Cat No. : 56785, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 79 col plates, line drawings, distribution maps

Hardback £76.00

This final volume in the series deals with about 30 families of Microlepidoptera from Epipyropidae to Pterophoridae (the first volume on Microlepidoptera (Vol. 7) covers the Micropterygidae to (more)

Field Guide to the Micro-moths of Great Britain and Ireland

by Sterling, P.; Parsons, M.; Lewington, R. (Illus.)

Cat No. : 54580, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 1500 col photos + illus, 900 col distribution maps

Hardback £44.95 £60.00 (Save £15.05)

The fully revised and expanded second edition of the ground-breaking book that made the fascinating micro-moth group accessible to the general naturalist.

Written by a team of moth experts under (more)

Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Basin. II: Weevils of Monte Grappa: Biosphere Reserve, Italy (Coleoptera Curculionoidea)

by Bello, C.; Caldara, R.; Colonnelli, E.; Dal Cortivo, M.; Forbicioni, L.; Giusto, C.; Osella, G.; Pedroni, G.; Ruzzier, E.; Sacco, F.; Tedeschi, M.

Cat No. : 56222, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 1015 col photos

Paperback £92.00

Text English and Italian. The catalog of Coleoptera Curculionoidea species known to date in the area of ​​the Monte Grappa Biosphere Reserve is presented. The 528 species reported, divided into 7 (more)

Alien Worlds: The Secret Lives of Insects

by Nicholls, S.

Cat No. : 51017, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 200 col illus

Hardback £35.00

An ambitious and beautifully illustrated account of the evolution and biology of insects.

Insects are the busy, teeming arthropods on whose activities much of life on earth depends, and whose (more)

The Dynastine Scarab Beetles of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)

by Ratcliffe, B.C.; Cave, R.D.; Le Tirant, S.

Cat No. : 56678, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col photos + maps

Hardback £59.95

The 37 genera and 191 species of dynastine scarab beetles that occur in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay are comprehensively reviewed. Bilingual keys are presented for the identification of tribes, (more)

Wilde Bienen: Biologie, Lebensraumdynamik und Gefährdung

by Wiesbauer, H.

Cat No. : 56878, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col photos

Hardback £54.00

Third enlarged and updated edition. Text German. Presents over 510 central European species, representing all genera, through colour photos and short species accounts. Offers an insight into the (more)

Thrips of Japan 日本原色アザミウマ図鑑

by Okajima, Hideharu; Masumoto, Masami

Cat No. : 56040, Published : 2022, Illustrations : col + b/w photos

Hardback £185.00

Text Japanese with diagnoses and figure captions in English. Identification of 450 species of Japanese thrips (Thysanoptera), a few of which are important pest species. Includes colour photos of (more)

Birds of China

by Yang, L.; Shuihua, C.

Cat No. : 54578, Published : 2023, Illustrations : c.4000 col illus.

Paperback £24.99 £35.00 (Save £10.01)

A comprehensive, fully illustrated field guide to the birds of China.

China is home to some of the most spectacular birdlife to be found anywhere in the world. This richly illustrated field guide (more)

Field Guide to Alpine Wildlife

by Gretler, T.

Cat No. : 53695, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 450+ col photos

Paperback £14.99 £18.99 (Save £4.00)

An essential companion for anyone visiting or hiking in the Alpine regions of France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

The Alps remain one of Europe's foremost (more)

The Essential Tree Selection Guide: For Climate Resilience, Carbon Storage, Species Diversity and Other Ecosystem Benefits

by Sjöeman, H.; Anderson, A.

Cat No. : 55936, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col illus

Hardback £39.99 £50.00 (Save £10.01)

Published in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. There has never been a better time to plant trees. As well as playing a vital role in the health of the natural world and of us humans, (more)

Collectable and Antiquarian

Les Papillons: leur histoire, la manière de leur faire la chasse et de les conserver; Ouvrage amusant et instructif, Orné de Figures représentant un choix des plus beaux Papillons d'Europe. Dédiée à la Jeunesse

by [Balland, Eugène Amédée]

Cat No. : 57113, Published : 1823, Illustrations : hand-col engraved frontis, 6 hand-col engraved plates

Hardback £450.00

First edition. The original wrappers illustrate collecting equipment. The charming frontispiece shows three young people engaged in collecting and preparing butterfly specimens. The attractive (more)

The Butterflies of Europe described and figured: Rhopalocera Europae descripta et delineata. Vol. I (Text) - II (Plates)

by Lang, H.C.

Cat No. : 57101, Published : 1884, Illustrations : 82 colour plates

Hardback £450.00

Originally published in parts 1881-1884. Illustrated with more than eight hundred coloured figures, drawn, mostly from nature, under the direction of the author. Fine chromolithographic plates by (more)

Index Entomologicus: or, a Complete Illustrated Catalogue … of the Lepidopterous Insects of Great Britain

by Wood, W.

Cat No. : 57116, Published : 1839, Illustrations : 54 hand-coloured plates

Hardback £395.00

First edition. Originally published in parts 1833-1838. Scarce. The hand-coloured plates include 1950 figures of butterflies and moths.

Horn-Schenkling 24425; Nissen ZBI 4458. (more)

European Butterflies and Moths

by Kirby, W.F.

Cat No. : 57108, Published : 1882, Illustrations : 61 hand-col + 1 plain plate

Hardback £300.00

First edition. Based upon Berge's 'Schmetterlingsbuch'. (more)

Micrographia Illustrata, or, The Knowledge of the Microscope Explain’d: Together with and Account of A New Invented Universal, Single or Double, Microscope …

by Adams, George [Sr]

Cat No. : 56967, Published : 1747, Illustrations : engraved frontispiece, 65 folding engraved plates

Hardback £3,800.00

Second edition, a re-issue of the first. With the 20-page 'Catalogue of Mathematical, Philosophical, and Optical Instruments, as Made and Sold by George Adams, At Tycho Brahe's Head, in Fleet-Street, (more)

Historia Naturalis Orcadensis. Zoology. Part I. Being a Catalogue of the Mammalia and Birds Hitherto observed in the Orkney Islands

by Baikie, W.B.; Heddle, Robert

Cat No. : 54388, Published : 1848

Hardback £495.00

Part I (all published). Very scarce. Printed slip, 'More Important Corrections, 1856. - R.H.' tipped in at p. iii. A manuscript list of Errata is also loosely inserted.

Mullens & Swann p. 36. (more)

The Bombyliidae of the Ethiopian Region based on Material in the British Museum (Natural History)

by Bezzi, M.

Cat No. : 56788, Published : 1924, Illustrations : 46 text figs

Hardback £120.00

First edition. Very scarce. (more)

History of British Birds. Vol. I: Land Birds [and] Vol. II: Water Birds

by Bewick, Thomas

Cat No. : 53326, Published : 1797-1804, Illustrations : numerous wood engravings, vignettes, etc.

Hardback £1,000.00

The figures engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick. First editions.

Vol. I: Roscoe 14c (Thin royal), variant A; advert to final leaf is for third edition of Quadrupeds; Vol. II: Roscoe 17c (Thin (more)

Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands. Vol. I-VII

by Lilford, Lord

Cat No. : 56969, Published : 1885-1897[98], Illustrations : photogravure photo frontis, 421 col plates

Hardback £2,500.00

First edition. Originally issued in 36 parts. Fine coloured plates, the majority by Thorburn, Keulemans, with a few by Lodge, Foster and Wolf.

Anker 308; Mullens & Swann p. 354; Nissen IVB 563. (more)

A History of British Birds. Vol. I-VI [with] A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds. Vol. I-III

by Morris, F.O.

Cat No. : 56968, Published : 1857-1864, Illustrations : 358 + 225 col plates

Hardback £3,000.00

First edition, mixed early reissues (except for Vol. VI (Birds), which is the first issue of 1857). Reissues commenced before completion of the first edition. Early issues are much superior in (more)

Synopsis of British Birds [Vol. I-II]

by Walcott, John

Cat No. : 56935, Published : 1789, Illustrations : 255 copper engravings

Hardback £3,600.00

First edition. Unpaginated, printed to recto only, with Title pages, Preface, sectional titles, and charming illustrations, mostly by the author, 'copied from nature', and engraved by P. Mazell. For (more)

Beautiful Birds: Their Natural History; including an Account of their Structure, Habits, Nidification, Etc. Etc. Vol. I-III

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

Cat No. : 53163, Published : 1854-1856, Illustrations : 36 hand-col lithographic plates, wood engravings to text

Hardback £450.00

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

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

Ootheca Wolleyana: An Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of Bird's Eggs. Vol. I-II

by Wolley, J.; Newton, A. (Ed.)

Cat No. : 56548, Published : 1864-1907, Illustrations : portrait frontis, 37 plates (23 col), 1 folding col map

Hardback £2,750.00

Illustrated catalogue of the oological collection of John Wolley (1824-1859), British ornithologist and naturalist, who amassed a vast collection of birds' eggs, and is perhaps best known for his (more)

Birds of Sussex

by Borrer, W.

Cat No. : 54044, Published : 1891, Illustrations : 6 col plates, 1 folding col map

Hardback £120.00

First edition. With fine chromolithographs by J.G. Keulemans.

Mullens & Swann p. 87; Nissen IVB 123a. (more)

Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan. Vol. 1-10: Together with Those of Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Ceylon

by Ali, S.; Ripley, S.D.

Cat No. : 55574, Published : 1968-1974, Illustrations : 113 col plates, line drawings, text figs

Hardback £150.00

Complete set of the original edition. (more)

Birds and Seasons

by Ennion, Eric

Cat No. : 53987, Published : 1994, Illustrations : 70+ col illus, 96 line drawings

Hardback £320.00

Limited edition of 55 leatherbound copies (this copy No. 32). Tipped in at the title page is an original pen-and-ink drawing of two coots in flight on an oval cut-out (38x110mm), mounted on a backing (more)

Beetles Butterflies Moths and other Insects: A Brief Introduction to their Collection and Preservation

by Kappel, A.W.; Kirby, W.E.

Cat No. : 57124, Published : 1893, Illustrations : 12 col plates, text figs

Hardback £50.00

Fourth thousand. Chromolithographic plates.

Freeman 2055. (more)

The Life and Love of the Insect

by Fabre, J.-H.

Cat No. : 53010, Published : 1914, Illustrations : 12 b/w plates

Hardback £45.00

Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. Reprint (first published 1911). (more)

Insect Ways on Summer Days: in Garden, Forest, Field, and Stream

by Humphreys, Jennett

Cat No. : 53639, Published : 1888, Illustrations : b/w frontis, text engravings

Hardback £25.00

First edition. A charming introductory book for children. (more)

Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Museum (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick. Vol. I-VIII

by Clarke, J.F. Gates

Cat No. : 56635, Published : 1955-1970, Illustrations : 1690 b/w plates

Hardback £400.00

Scarce complete set.

Edward Meyrick (1854-1938,) was an English schoolmaster and micro-lepidopterist. From 1877-1886 he taught in Australia and New Zealand, during this time he amassed a large (more)

A Manual of Marine Zoology for the British Isles. Part I-II

by Gosse, Philip Henry

Cat No. : 56765, Published : 1855-1856, Illustrations : 335 + 339 woodcuts

Hardback £80.00

'The first attempt at a comprehensive list of the British marine fauna ... Each genus is described briefly and its species listed, and each is illustrated by a simple woodcut drawn by Gosse himself (more)

Natural History. Fishes.

by Gosse, P.H.

Cat No. : 56763, Published : 1851, Illustrations : 81 text woodcuts

Hardback £100.00

Charming woodcut illustrations containing the names of Whimper and Gosse. This is the fourth of a five-volume set of natural histories for young people (the others being Mammalia, Birds, Reptiles and (more)

A Sketch of the Natural History of Brighton and its Vicinity

by Merrifield, Mrs [Mary Philadelphia]

Cat No. : 55522, Published : 1860, Illustrations : full-page engraving, folding engraved map

Hardback £120.00

First edition. Scarce.

Freeman 2558. (more)

An Essay towards a Natural History of the County of Dublin, Accommodated to the Noble Designs of the Dublin Society. Vol. I-II

by Rutty, John

Cat No. : 53406, Published : 1772, Illustrations : folding map, 4 folding plates, 7 folding tables

Hardback £1,750.00

Affording a summary View, I. Of its Vegetables ...; II Of its Animals; III. Of its Soil, and the State of its Agriculture; its Fossils, Mines, Minerals ...; IV. Of the Nature of the Climate ... (more)

The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton. To which are added, The Naturalist's Calendar; Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and Poems

by White, Gilbert

Cat No. : 55235, Published : 1813, Illustrations : folding frontis, 8 plates (1 hand-col), 3 vignettes

Hardback £750.00

New (3rd) edition. Mitford's 4to edition. Includes 12 fine engravings, including the folding frontis-piece, 8 full page plates (one hand-coloured) and 3 vignettes in the text. Gilbert White (more)

The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne

by White, Gilbert; Harting, J.E

Cat No. : 53965, Published : 1875, Illustrations : numerous woodcuts to text, folding facsimile of a page from White's journal

Hardback £55.00

The Standard edition by E.T. Bennett. Thoroughly revised with additional notes by James Edmund Harting. Illustrated with engravings by Thomas Bewick, Harvey, and Others. The first Harting (more)

Ethiopian snake list and distribution [Manuscript]

by de Rougemont, G.M.

Cat No. : 57046, Published : c. 1960s, Illustrations : printed, folding location map

Paperback £35.00

Manuscript list of Ethiopian snakes, with printed key map to locations. Includes an identification key to the snake genera of Ethiopia, a list of species with locations, and species lists for the (more)

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