(Merian). Heard, Kate. MARIA MERIAN’S BUTTERFLIES. Foreword by Dr. George McGavin. Royal Collection Trust 2016.
1st Ed. 190pp. + [ii]. Profusely illus. throughout in colour. Very good in d/w.
£25.00 [ref: 284203]

Costa, James T. THE OTHER INSECT SOCIETIES. Foreword by Bert Hölldobler. Commentary by Edward O. Wilson. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006.
1st Ed. Large 8vo. [xvi] + 767pp. + [i]. Vignette title page, 28 pages of colour photos., several text ills. Ownership inscription, good in d/w. lightly faded to spine.
£40.00 [ref: 289858]

Denny, Henry. MONOGRAPHIA PSELAPHIDARUM ET SCYDMÆNIDARUM BRITANNIÆ: Or An Essay on the British Species of the Genera Pselaphus, of Herbst, and Scydmænus, of Latreille: In Which Those Genera are Subdivided, and all the Species Hitherto Discovered in Great Britain are Accurately Described and Arranged, with an Indication of the Situations in which They are Usually Found. Norwich: Published by S. Wilkin, Uppper [sic] Haymarket ... 1825.
1st Ed. vi + 74pp. With 2pp. of Subscribers. 14 hand coloured plates. Light browning, with pen inscription of Beverley Oberstraud?, rebound in C20th paper backed boards, minor soiling and wear with sl. fraying to head and tail of spine.
Freeman 958. Exquisite illustrations ‘each species illustrated by a hugely magnified figure.’ Henry Denny (1803–1871), ‘... entomologist, was for forty-five years curator of the museum of the Literary and Philosophical Society in Leeds. Before his appointment he had published [the above work] His studies were to follow this direction for the rest of his life, and, while performing his duties as curator, he made himself a leading authority on the subject of parasitic insects. Denny was the first salaried curator of the Leeds museum, and was dedicated to the institution. The entomologist William Kirby [a subscriber to the above work] (1759–1850), to whom Denny dedicated his first monograph, tried unsuccessfully to secure for the latter employment as illustrator on a serial entomological publication ...’ ODNB.
£225.00 [ref: 274360]

Drosopoulos, Sakis and Claridge, Michael F. (Editors). INSECT SOUNDS AND COMMUNICATION. Physiology, Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Florida 2006.
1st Ed. Royal 8vo. [xviii] + 532pp. Numerous figures. With DVD in pocket at rear. Good in white lettered purple coloured pictorial laminated boards, lightly faded to spine.
Contemporary Topics in Entomology Series.
£50.00 [ref: 287354]

Eisner, Thomas. FOR LOVE OF INSECTS. Balknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press 2003.
1st Ed. Royal 8vo. xi + 448pp. Profusely ills. mainly colour. Very good in d/w.
£25.00 [ref: 282315]

Isaac, J. THE GENERAL APIARIAN. Books New and Old, Much Birch, Herefordshire 2013.
Facsimile Reprint of 1803 Ed. Sm. 8vo. T.p. + v + [i] + (128)pp. Vignette t.p., several ills., dec. tail pieces. Marbled e.ps., very good in original gilt lettered blind rule edged buckram with gilt illus. to upper board.
No. 34 of a Limited Edition of 50 Copies.
£30.00 [ref: 273231]

Isaac, J. THE GENERAL APIARIAN. Books New and Old, Hereford 2013.
Facsimile Reprint of 1803 Ed. Sm. 8vo. [ii] + v + [i] + (5-128)pp. Illus. t.p., ills. Marbled e.ps., very good in gilt lettered green cloth with 3 bee devices to upper board, in cloth covered slipcase.
No. 27 of a Limited Edition of 50 Copies.
£30.00 [ref: 277531]

Kitching, Ian J. and Cadiou, Jean-Marie. HAWKMOTHS OF THE WORLD. An Annotated and Illustrated Revisionary Checklist (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Natural History Museum, London/Comstock Publishing Associates/Cornell University Press 2000.
1st Ed. 4to. [x] + 226pp. + [ii]. 8 colour plates. Ownership inscription, otherwise good in d/w.
£75.00 [ref: 291207]

Merian, Mariam Sibyllam. METAMORPHOSIS INSECTORUM SURINAMENSIUM. In qua Erucæ ac Vermes Surinamenses, cum omnibus suis Transformationibus, ad vivùm delineantur & describuntur, singulis eorum in PLantas, Flores & Fructus collocatis, in quibus reperta sunt; Tum etiam Generatio Ranarum, Busonum rariorum, Lacertarum, Serpentum, Araneorum & Formicarum exhibetur; Monia inm America ad vivùm naturali magnitudine picta atque descripta. PLATE volume [only, lacking text volume]. Pion Limited 1980.
Facsimile Reprint of 1705 Ed. Folio. [viii]pp. 60 colour plates. Title page sl. marked. Stitched only, not bound.
An Un-Numbered copy of a Limited Edition of 950 of a larger Limitation of 990 Copies. The facsimile colour plates have been made from original paintings in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator. She was one of the earliest European naturalists to observe insects directly. In 1699, Merian travelled to Dutch Guiana to study and record the tropical insects native to the region. In 1705, she published Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium. Merian's Metamorphosis has been credited with influencing a range of naturalist illustrators. Because of her careful observations and documentation of the metamorphosis of the butterfly, Merian is considered by David Attenborough to be among the more significant contributors to the field of entomology.
£180.00 [ref: 284836]

Newman, Edward. AN ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. W.H. Allen & Co. 1885.
Large 8vo. xvi + 176pp. Many figures drawn by George Willis and engraved by John Kirchner. Age toning, with the ink stamp of Duncan MacKinnon, original gilt and black dec. terracotta cloth, corners frayed, spine chipped.
First published in 1870.
£35.00 [ref: 287331]