Entomology List 1
Entomology List 1
77 items found
Duméril, A. M. C.
Considérations générales sur la classe des insectes. Ouvrage orné de soixante planches en taille-douce reprentant plus de trois cent cinquante genres d'insectes.
Paris, F. G. Levrault, 1823. 8vo (23.5 x 14.5 cm). xii, 272 pp.; 60 engraved plates. Publisher's printed boards. In transparent sleeve.
Read moreHumphreys, H. N.
The butterfly vivarium, or, insect home: being an account of a new method of observing the curious metamorphoses of some of the most beautiful of our native insects. Comprising also a popular description of the habits and instincts of many of the insects of the various classes referred to; with suggestions for the successful study of entomology by means of an insect vivarium.
London, William Lay, 1858. 8vo (18.2 x 13.8 cm). xii, 288, [iv] pp.; eight originally hand-coloured plates, the first (unnumbered) acting as frontispiece. Original burgundy blind-stamped cloth with large gilt vignette on the front board, and gilt ornaments and title on the spine. Red endpapers. All edges gilt.
Read moreHorn, W. and S. Schenkling
Index Litteraturae Entomologicae Serie I: de Welt-Literatur über die gesamte Entomologie bis inklusive 1863. [Interleaved set with additions].
Berlin, Walter Horn, 1928-1929. 8vo (23.2 x 15.8 cm). Four parts in four. 1426 pp. [interleaved with blanks]; four plates with portraits. Uniform contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spines with gilt bands and title. Speckled edges.
Read moreMillière, P.
Catalogue raisonné des lépidoptères des Alpes-Maritimes. Seconde Partie - Troisième et Dernière partie.
Cannes, Société des Sciences Naturelles, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Cannes et de l'Arrondissement de Grasse [for the author], 1873-1875. Two parts in one. 8vo (24.6 x 16.2 cm). Half title, two title pages, pp. 141-247, 251-455; two hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary quarter morocco over blind-stamped boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt.
Read moreWilcox, J. A.
Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa. Pars 78, Fasc. 1-4 (Editio Secunda). Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae. Fasc. 1: Oidini, Galerucini, Metacyclini, Sermylini; Fasc. 2: Luperini: Aulacophorina, Diabroticina; Fasc. 3 Luperina; Fasc. 4: Addenda et index. [Complete].
's-Gravenhage, W. Junk, 1971-1975. Four parts in four. 8vo (34.7 x 16.9 cm). 772 pp. [220; 212; 234; 106]. Original grey printed wrappers (Fasc. 1 and 2); uniform red, pictorial wrappers (Fasc. 3 and 4).
Read moreMader, J.
Raupenkalender oder Verzeichnis aller Monate in welchen die von Rösel und Kleemann beschriebene und abgebildete Raupen nebst ihrem Futter zu finden sind.
Nürnberg, Raspe (C. J. C. Kleemann), 1785. 8vo (18.8 x 11.7 cm). 120 pp., including title. Contemporary tree calf. Spine with four raised bands; compartments with blind-tooled floral vignettes and red morocco label with title. Floral patterned pastedowns. Red edges.
Read moreWolff, J. F.
Abbildungen der Wanzen mit Beschreibungen. Erstes - Fünftes Heft. Mit einem Register über die fünf Hefte. [Complete].
Erlangen, Johann Jakob Palm, 1800-1811. Five parts in one. 4to (24.0 x 20.9 cm). [2], [2], viii, 208 pp., five title pages; 20 engraved plates of which two partly hand-coloured. Each plate has a handwritten explanatory text leaf. Early 20th-century full, grained cloth with gilt title on spine and front board. Blue endpapers. All edges marbled.
Read moreGraves, G.
The naturalist's pocket-book, or tourist's companion, being a brief introduction to the different branches of natural history, with approved methods for collecting and preserving the various productions of nature.
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. 8vo (22.5 x 14.0 cm). [iv], viii, [ii], 335 pp. Eight engraved plates of which five zoological plates in original hand-colouring (as intended). Original pink boards with original printed label on the spine.
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