Entomology
136 items found
Wollaston, T. V.
Coleoptera Atlantidum, being an enumeration of the coleopterous insects of the Madeiras, Salvages, and Canaries.
London, John van Voorst, 1865. Thick 8vo (22.0 x 13.8 x 4.8 cm). xlvii, 526, 140 pp.; one engraved map. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine.
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Catalogue of the coleopterous insects of the Canaries in the collection of the British Museum.
London, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1864. Thick 8vo (21.9 x 14.0 x 3.8 cm). xiii, 648, 8 pp. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine. Yellow endpapers.
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 (25.2 x 20.1 cm). First title page (verso blank), [ii (preface)], [iv], [ii], [iii-iv; vii-viii; v-[vi], 208 pp. (with second title [1801], third title [1802], fourth title [1804], and fifth (last) title [1811]); 20 finely engraved plates with beautiful original hand-colouring. Later 19th-century full embossed cloth. Spine with gilt ornaments and title; boards with blind-stamped ornamental borders. Marbled 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 moreWilliamson, E. B. [and others]
Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. The entomological [insect] papers. 1916-1962.
Ann Arbor, MI, The University of Michigan, 1916-1962. 20 papers in three volumes. Large 8vo (24.4 x 16.7 cm). ca. 1400 pp.; many text illustrations and plates. Uniform printed cloth.
Read moreWilde, [W.] O.
Die Pflanzen und Raupen Deutschlands. Versuch einer lepidopterologischen Botanik. Erster Theil. Systematische Beschreibung der Pflanzen, unter Angabe der an denselben lebenden Raupen. Mit einem Vorworte von A. Speyer. Zweiter Theil. Systematische Beschreibung der Raupen unter Angabe ihrer Lebensweise und Entwicklungszeiten.
Berlin, E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1860-1861. Two volumes in one. 8vo (19.2 x 12.4 cm). xiii, 223; vii, 494 pp.; ten engraved plates. Contemporary half vellum over paper covered boards, spine with red morocco label with gilt title.
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 moreWestwood, J. O.
Observations on the Uraniidae, a family of lepidopterous insects, with a synopsis of the family and a monograph of Coronidia, one of the genera of which it is composed.
London, The Zoological Society, 1879. Large 4to (31.8 x 25.0 cm). 36 pp.; four lithographed plates of which two beautifully hand-coloured. Disbound.
Read moreWalker, F.
Insecta Britannica. Diptera. Vol. I - III. [Complete].
London, Lovell Reeve, 1851-1856. Three volumes in three. 8vo (22.0 x 14.1 cm). [I (1851): vi, 314, (16); II (1853): vi, 298, (16); III (1856): xxiv, 352, (24)]; 30 engraved plates [I: I-X; II: XI-XX; III: XXI-XXX]. Uniform original pebbled and blind-tooled cloth; gilt title on the spines. Yellow endpapers.
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[Alert voyage] Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of the HMS Alert 1881-1882.
London, Taylor and Francis, 1884. 8vo (22.4 x 14.1 cm). xxv, 684 pp.; 54 lithographed plates (some partially coloured). Original embossed and gilt-lettered cloth.
Read moreUngemach, H.
Contribution a l'étude des lépidoptères d'Abyssinie. 1re partie. Rhopalocères.
Rabat, Institut Scientifique Chérifien, 1932. 8vo (25.2 x 16.3 cm). Half-title, title page, 122 pp.; two plates with explanatory text leaves, including one in full colour. Original printed wrappers.
Read more[Trade Catalogue - Japanese Silk]
Well-known raw silk producers and their trade marks - Empire of Japan - Compiled for Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904.
Tokio [Tokyo], The Japan Sericultural Association, 1904. Folio (29.6 x 22.0 cm). Preliminary leaf, title page, (xiv [advertisements]), 166, 7, [ix] pp. 144 text illustrations (logos), of which 142 in colour - mostly in full colour chromolithography, a few partly printed in silver. Additional full-colour illustrations in the advertisement sections. Original multi-colour pochoir wrappers, with two silk ties. Printed erratum leaf tipped in.
Read moreThunberg, C. P.
Periculum entomologicum, quo characteres generum insectorum, consensu exper. fac. med. upsal. praeside Carol. Pet. Thunberg, publicae censurae proponit Samuel Törner, Norcopia-Gothus. In audit. Gust. maj. d. X Jun. MDCCLXXXIX.
Upsaliae [Uppsala], Joh. Edman, 1789. Quarto (21.5 x 17.5 cm). Title page, 16 pp. Early 20th-century light blue buckram; black morocco strip with gilt title on the spine. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreSwammerdam, J.
Historia insectorum generalis in qua verissina mutationem...duce experientia... recepta vulgo insectorum metamorphosis solide refutatur... adjicitur dilucidatio... Ex Belgica latinam fecit Henricus Christianus Henninius. Editio Secunda.
Ultrajecti [Utrecht], Ottho de Vries, 1693. 4to (19.3 x 15.6 cm). Half-title, title in red and black with woodcut vignette, 212 pp., [xvii]; 13 (mostly) folded engraved plates, one folded table. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, spine with gilt title on morocco label, gilt name embossed on front board.
Read moreSturm, J. [or J. A. Boerner]
Four beetles. [Original watercolour].
Germany, [the artist], [before] 1835. Single leaf (8.9 x 7.1 cm) with four small, detailed drawings of beetles, mounted on a larger sheet (17.5 x 11.7 cm). Preserved in a larger, modern cardboard frame (37.4 x 25.6 cm).
Read more[Sturm, J. (AND) Frauenholz, J. M.]
Original hand-coloured proof plates for Bilder für Kinder mit Hinsicht auf die von Herrn Andre und Bechstein herausgegebenen Spaziergänge, gesammelt von I. F. Frauenholz.
Nürnberg, Frauenholz, [1792]-1793-1795. Five plates. Oblong (19.5 x 22.5 cm), and near square (22.0 x 19.0 cm). Engraved and finely coloured by hand, one with handwritten captions. On loose sheets; versos blank.
Read moreSturm, J.
Kupfersammlung zu Schuberts und jeder andern Naturgeschichte brauchbar. In 12 Blättern, nach der Natur gezeichnet, gestochen und gemahlt.
Nürnberg, privately published, (n.d., but circa 1825). 8vo (20.1 x 12.0 cm). pp. v-viii; 12 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary blind grey/black mottled paper covered boards. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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