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Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration
by Hölldobler, Bert and Wilson, Edward O.
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. First edition.. A fine, as new, copy.. Pp. (11), 228; numerous color and black-and-white photos, numerous text-figures (line-drawings). Publishers original illustrated dark green cloth, the spine is lettered in silver, color pictorial dust jacket, sm 4to. The authors interweave their personal adventures with the social life of ants, building, from… Read more about this item Item Price
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Natural History of New York, Part V: Agriculture, Volume 5 - Description of the More Common and Injurious Species of Insects (with fine hand-colored plates)
by Emmons, Ebenezer
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Albany, New York: C. Van Benthuysen, 1854. First edition.. There is scattered foxing to the endpapers, some light foxing and browning to the plate tissue guards, the hand-colored plates are bright and clean, and the cloth binding is clean and unused; a tight copy in very good condition.. Pp. viii, 272, 49 full page plates - 46 are… Read more about this item Item Price
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Parasites and Parasitism
by Cameron, Thomas W. M.
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London: Methuen & Co. LTD., 1958. First edition with minor corrections.. A near fine copy.. Pp. xix, 322, 115 text-figures. Publishers green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, 8vo. This volume is an introduction to parasitology divided into two parts, The Parasites and The Host and its Reactions. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Hive and the Honey Bee
by Graham, Joe M. (editor)
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Hamilton, IL: Dadant and Sons, 1997. Third printing.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. xxv, 1324; numerous black-and-white photos, halftones, line-drawings, and graphs. Publishers original wine-red cloth, decorated in gilt on the spine and front cover and boldly lettered in gilt, thick lg 8vo. This new edition follows the tradition of Langstroth… Read more about this item Item Price
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Memoirs on the Coleoptera, Parts I - XI, complete, in 10 volumes
by Casey, Thomas L.
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Lancaster, PA: The New Era Printing Company, 1910-1924. First edition.. A tight and clean set in near fine condition.. Pp. 205; 259; 386; 400; 387; 460; 300; 427; 529; 520; 347. Early full black pebble cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine + original pale green printed wrappers (for Part IV), lg 8vo. This is… Read more about this item Item Price
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Notes on the Acrididae of New England, II. Tryxalinae + III. Oadipodinae, + IV. Acridiinae.
by Morse, Albert P.
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Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Entomological Club, 1896-1898. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 46. Quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, 8vo. From: Psyche, Journal of Entomology, volume 7: 323-327, 382-384, 402-403, 407-411, 419-422, 443-445, volume 8: 6-8, 35-37, 50-51, 64-66, 257-260, 269-273, 293-296. This work contains… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Zygoptera, or Damsel-Flies, of Illinois.
by Garman, Philip
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Urbana: Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 1916. First edition.. Light edge wear to the wrappers, outer wrappers lightly soiled and sunned on the outer edges and spine; overall a very good copy.. Pp. 179; 21 full page plates (line-drawings, half-tones, black-and-white photos). Original printed cream-colored wrappers, lg 8vo. Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Philippine Phoridae from the Mount Apo Region in Mindanao.
by Brues, Charles T.
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Boston: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1936.. A near fine copy.. Pp. 103; 28 text-figures (line-drawings of wings). Original printed pale green wrappers, lg 8vo. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, volume 70, no. 9. The Phoridae are a family of small, hump-backed flies resembling fruit flies. Phorid flies can… Read more about this item Item Price
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Collection of 365 offprints on Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, and locusts) and related insect groups from the private library of entomologist Herbert S. Wallace.
by Various authors
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Various places, 1871-1959. First edition.. Very good to near fine condition.. Pp. 5000+, numerous line-drawings, photographs, maps and others. Each offprint is separately bound in quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, usually with the original printed wrappers bound in place, 8vo or 4to. The offprints date from the 1870s to the 1950s.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Monografia de los Pirgomorfinos, Part I.
by Bolivar, Ignacio
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Madrid: Imprenta de Fortanet, 1884. First edition.. Yellow wrappers a little worn on edges, one outer corner of text with slight wear; a very good copy.. Pp. 5-73, 3 full page lithograph plates. Quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, (original yellow plain wrappers bound in place), lg 8vo. Anales de la Soc. Espanola… Read more about this item Item Price
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Iconographie de quelques Sauterelles Vertes.
by Pictet, Alphonse and Saussure, Henri de
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Genève: Aubert-Schuchardt, 1892. First edition.. Light marginal browning and a few small tears to the outer margins of the first two pages; otherwise a very good copy.. Pp. 26 (2), 3 fine lithograph plates (colored in green). Quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, lg 4to. Early very small name stamp of Frederick M.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Common Insects in Kansas
by Smith, Roger S. et al.
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Topeka: Kansas State Board of Agriculture, 1943. First edition. Very good copy.. Pp. 440, 464 text-figures and photos, 4 full page color plates. Quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, (original color pictorial printed wrappers bound in place), lg 8vo. Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture 20, no. 945. From the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Insects of Samoa and other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropoda. Part I. Orthoptera and Dermaptera, Fasc. 2: Orthoptera
by Chopard, L.
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London: British Museum, 1929. First edition. Near fine copy.. Pp. 50, 51 text-figures, 2 full page maps. Quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, (original green printed wrappers bound in place), lg 8vo. This is the complete work on grasshoppers. From the private library of entomologist Herbert S. Wallace with his signature on… Read more about this item Item Price
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Studies in American Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera), Parts I, II, V and VI
by Rehn, J.A. and Hebard, M.
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Philadelphia: American Entomological Society, 1914-1915. First edition. A clean, very good copy.. Pp. 271-344, 4 full page plates; pp. 155-224, 6 full page plates; pp. 225-290, 4 full page plates. Quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, (original wrappers bound in place), 8vo. Four parts (bound separately in three volumes) of this rare monograph:… Read more about this item Item Price
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Marquesan Insects III
by Silvestri, F., and collaborators
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Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1939. First edition. Bump to bottom edge prior to the binding of the work, a tight and clean very good copy.. Pp. v, 220, numerous text-figures. Quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, (original brown printed wrappers bound in place), lg 8vo. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 124 and Pacific Entomological… Read more about this item Item Price
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Society Islands Insects
by Light, S. F. and collaborators
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Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1935. First edition. Tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. 156, numerous text-figures. Quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, (original brown printed wrappers bound in place), lg 8vo. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 113 and Pacific Entomological Survey Publication No. 6. Scarce work on the insect fauna… Read more about this item Item Price
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Studies of Inheritance and Evolution in Orthoptera. V. The Grouse Locust, Apotettix eurycephalus Hancock
by Nabours, Robert K.
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Topeka: Kansas State Agricultural College, 1925. First edition. Very good copy.. Pp. 231, 2 color plates. Quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, (original wrappers bound in place), 8vo. Kansas Agricultural Experiment Technical Bulletin Station, no. 17. Name stamps of T.H. Hubbell and F.W. Walker on the front endpaper. From the private… Read more about this item Item Price
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A List of the Insect Types in the Collections of the Illinois State Natural History Survey and the University of Illinois
by Frison, T. H.
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Urbana: Natural History Survey, 1927. First edition. Tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. (4), 137-309. Quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, (original cream-colored printed wrappers bound in place), lg 8vo. State of Illinois, Department of Registration and Education, Division of the Natural History Survey, Bulletin of the Illinois, volume 16,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Supplement 1919 to 1924 (inclusive) to Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico
by Leng, Charles W. and Mutchler, Andrew J.
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Mount Vernon, NY: John D. Sherman, Jr., 1927. First edition. Very good copy.. Pp. 146. Early blue cloth, gilt-lettered on the spine, lg 8vo. Ex-library from the Reading Public Museum with white call number on spine and single museum ink stamp on page 100 but few signs of use. Item Price
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Revision der Tenebrionidengattungen Thalpophila und Rhytinota
by Koch, C.
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Munchen: Verlag J. Pfeiffer, 1943. First edition. Near fine copy.. Pp. 134, 10 fine full page photo-plates of beetles. Publisher's printed brown patterned wrappers, lg 8vo. This monograph is included in the whole issue of Mitteilungen der Munchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft volume 33, part 3 offered here. No ownership marks. Item Price
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