Butterflies And Moths from Natural History Books

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1893. First edition.. Spine is lightly sunned, a bright and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. 424. Early green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, 8vo. This is Bulletin of the United States National Museum, no. 44. The Noctuidae or owlet moths are a family of robustly built moths… Read more about this item

Berlin: Berliner Entomologischer Verein, 1901. First edition.. Some marginal chipping to the front and wear tan wrappers; otherwise a very good copy.. Pp. 487-524; 2 plates of butterfly wings (1 black-and-white photo and one chromolithograph). Original plain tan wrappers, 8vo. From the journal: Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift volume 46. This work presents the distribution of… Read more about this item

Berlin: Berliner Entomologischer Verein, 1901. First edition.. Small tears to outer blank margins of both plates have been nearly repaired; a tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. 1-4; 2 black-and-white photo plate of butterfly wings. Original plain tan wrappers, 8vo. From the journal: Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift volume 46. This work presents… Read more about this item

Berlin: Berliner Entomologischer Verein, 1903. First edition.. Outer margin of plate with small chip repaired, a tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. 1-34; 1 black-and-white photo plate of butterfly wings. Original plain tan wrappers, 8vo. From the journal: Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift volume 48. This work presents a synonymic directory of known Eueides… Read more about this item

Stanford, CA: Microentomology, Division of Systematic Biology, 1962. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 89; 316 text-figures (all fine line-drawings). Original printed white wrappers, lg 8vo. From the journal series: Microentomology, volume 25, number. 1. This work is a detailed anatomical study of the head muscles of butterflies… Read more about this item

Bratislava, Slovenia: Osveta, 1960. First edition.. A near fine copy in a slight worn but very good dust jacket.. Pp. 100, (1); +205 photographs of butterflies on 154 un-numbered text-pages (10 are full-page color photos). Publisher's original yellow cloth, lettered in black on the spine and with butterflies in black on the front cover, color pictorial… Read more about this item

Wallingford, UK: C-A-B International, 1987. First edition.. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. ix, (1), 270; 36 plates (18 are in full color), numerous text-figures. Publisher's original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo (10.8 x 8.75 inches). The Limacodidae or Euclidae is a family… Read more about this item

Bruxelles: Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, 1932-1935. First edition.. Wrappers on the spine are a little worn and chipped, edges of wrappers a little tanned; a tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. 99, 2 full-page foldout black-and-white plates, some text-figures; pp. 64, 11 full-page foldout black-and-white plates, some text-figures. Original printed gray… Read more about this item

Beijing: Chinese Forestry Publishing House, 2008. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. (2), 2, 1-360; 550+ fine color photographs of butterflies, pupae, and caterpillars. Color pictorial stiff wrappers, 4to. The text is in Chinese with Latin names used throughout. There is a detailed 50 page index to each Latin genus and species. … Read more about this item

London: William Smith, 1857. Slight edge wear to cloth, some uniform age-toning to the text leaves with a touch of scattered foxing, the fine hand-colored plates are bright and clean with no browning or foxing; an attractive copy in very good condition.. Pp. xiv, 258; xix, 268, 124 fine hand-colored lithographed plates. Publisher's original wine red pebble cloth,… Read more about this item

Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1939. First edition. Bottom outer corner with bump, a very good copy.. Pp. 113, 30 full page plates - many are black-and-white photos. Original color printed wrappers, sm 4to. A revision of the Neotropical species of the Danaoidea. Memorias Instituto Oswaldo Cruz volume 34, fasc. 1. The entire… Read more about this item

Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1936. First edition. Bottom outer corner with small bump, slight edge wear; a very good copy.. Pp. 159, 18 full page plates - many are black-and-white photos. Original color printed wrappers, sm 4to. Coverage of the Neotropical species 'Terias americanas' with special emphasis on the eggs, larvae, pupae, host plants… Read more about this item

New York: American Museum, 1964. First edition. Near fine copy.. Pp. 194, 7 photo-plates, 163 text-figures. Publisher's blue printed wraps, lg 8vo. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 126, article 3. Small circular blind-stamp of former owner on the front wrapper.

Tokyo: Koudansha, 1981.  First edition.. Fine copy in the original fine slipcase still in the publisher's pictorial shipping box.. Pp. 272, 48 full page fine color plates, 192 text-figures - 32 are in color.  Original blind-stamped orange cloth, in the original cloth-backed color pictorial slipcase (and in the publisher's shipping carton which also has a color pictorial title/author… Read more about this item