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An Illustrated Essay on the Noctuidae of North America; with "A Colony Of Butterflies."
Grote, Augustus Radcliffe.
/ London: John Van Voorst 1882
first edition; small quarto, 85 pp, 4 color lithographic plates, original green cloth & leather backstrip, spine rubbed and very slightly chipped, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: entomology, butterflies, moths, natural history, MNH
Item #: 1112521
$78.06
On the Structure of a Species of Millepora occurring at Tahiti Society Islands.
Moseley, H. N.
/ (London): 1877
extracted from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 167, Part 1; large quarto, [19] pp., 2 plates, general age toning and light roughness at spine, now in self wrappers. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: marine biology, fire corals, MNH
Item #: 830334
$6.11
Notes on the Butterflies Observed in a Tour through India and Ceylon, 1903-4,
Longstaff, G. B.
/ London: Entomological Society of London, 1905
reprinted from the Society's Transactions; [84], 2 pp, paper wrappers dark, detached, and margin chipped but inscribe "From the author" on front cover, light general age toning to text but still well stapled; an interesting aspect to Dr. Longsraff's investigations is that he smelled living subjects. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: entomology, butterflies, MNH
Item #: 822929
$18.31
Directions for Collecting Recent and Fossil Plants. (Bulletin of the United States National Museum, Number 39, Part B)
Knowlton, F. H.
/ Washington: GPO, 1891
46, [1] pp., a few illustrations in text; paper wrappers chipped at spine and title browned, overall good; detailed instructions for doing things in a professional way. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: botany, MNH
Item #: 817708
$6.18
Frederick William Frohawk: A memoir
Valezina Bolingbroke
/ Classey 1977
16 pp., Paperback, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0900848987
Subject/Keywords: mnh, memoirs, biography
Item #: 817842
$4.74
A Synonymical Catalogue of North American Sphingidae, with Notes and Descriptions (extracted from Proceedings of the Entomological Society of America, 5)
Grote, Augustus R., & Coleman F. Robinson.
/ Philadelphia: 1865
[68] pp., 1 plate; light general age toning to text, plate clean, overall very good in later cloth. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: entomology, moths, MNH
Item #: 815317
$21.85
Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Volume XIII
George F. Hampson
/ London: The British Museum 1913
xiv, 609, 32 (publisher's catalogue) pp, original brown cloth, book plates, hand stamps, else good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: lepidoptery moths butterflies mnh
Item #: 815424
$13.56
Catalogue of the Amatidae and Arctiadae (Nolinae and Lithosianae) in the Collection of the British Museum. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement Volume I
George F. Hampson
/ London: The British Museum 1914
first editoin; xxviii, 838, 32 (publisher's catalogue) pp., original brown cloth, covers soiled, hinges tender, else near very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: lepidoptery butterflies moths mnh
Item #: 815421
$21.99
A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera. A text-book for students and collectors. Vol. X
J. W. Tutt
/ Swan Sonnenschein 1908
viii, 410 pp., plates; original red cloth (hardcover), very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: lepidoptery butterflies mnh
Item #: 813787
$17.51
A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera. A text-book for students and collectors. Vol. IV. (With Synopsis of Contents of and General Index to Vols. I.-IV.)
J. W. Tutt
/ Swan Sonnenschein 1904
xvii, 535, [7] (ads) pp., photographic frontis. portrait of Tutt, one plate; original purple cloth (hardcover), spine faded, light foxing to the frontis., else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: lepidoptery butterflies mnh
Item #: 813784
$43.71
A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera. A text-book for students and collectors. Vol. III
J. W. Tutt
/ Swan Sonnenschein 1902
xi, 558, [6] (ads) pp., original purple cloth (hardcover), spine faded, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: lepidoptery butterflies mnh
Item #: 813783
$14.81
A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera. A text-book for students and collectors. Vol. II
J. W. Tutt
/ Swan Sonnenschein 1900
viii, 584, [4] (ads) pp., original purple cloth (hardcover), spine faded, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: lepidoptery butterflies mnh
Item #: 813782
$14.65
Bees in the Australian Museum Collection. (Extract from Records of the Australian Museum, Vol. XVII, No. 5)
Cockerell, T. D. A.
/ Sydney: 1929
small quarto, [65] pp, paper wrappers faded and text age toned, good only, most of the bees were gathered in Australia. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: entomology, bees, Australia, MNH
Item #: 812688
$17.67
HARRY GOVIER SEELEY AND THE KARROO REPTILES.
William Elgin. Swinton
/ British Museum 1962
39 pp., Paperback, light moisture rippling to top edge, else good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: mnh, Natural History,
Item #: 812850
$5.50
Uber den Bau des Pentacrinus caput Medusae. (Gelesen in der Akademie der Wissenschaften am 30. April 1840 und 13. Mai 1841)
Muller, Johannes.
/ NP: Akademie der Wissenschaften? 1841
quarto, [72] pp., 5 plates; penciling and scattered age staining to text, plates age toned, partially disbound in self wrappers, reading copy. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: marine biology, Cnidaria, cytology, MNH
Item #: 810659
$76.48
Expedition to South-West Arabia, 1937-1938. Volume I. (issue 3, article) Nos. 16-19
British Museum (Natural History).
/ London: The British Museum, 1951
the third issue of Volume 1 only; quarto, [126] pp. illustrated, including five plates; light general age toning but overall very good in original paper wrappers with the index for the entire volume inserted loose. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Arabia, Arabian Peninsula, natural history, MNH
Item #: 810640
$13.58
Alphabetical Index to North American Orthoptera described in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. (Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History, 6)
Scudder, Samuel H.
/ Boston: Boston Society of Natural History. 1901
first edition; tall octavo, 436 pp, only the tattered front cover remains from paper wrappers, text age toned but almost entirely unopened; includes the West Indies. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: history of , entomology, grasshoppers, crickets, MNH
Item #: 810603
$4.94
Papilio. Devoted to Lepidoptera Exclusively. Vol. I numbers 1-10, January-November, 1881. Organ of the New York Entomological Club
Henry Edwards, editor
/ New York Entomological Club 1881
10 issues, each in original paper wrappers, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: lepidoptery mnh
Item #: 809134
$89.46
Illustrations of the Zygaenidae & Bombycidae of North America. Vol. I. Part 1 to 9. July 1872 to Dec. 1873
Richard A. Stretch
/ San Francisco 1872
all published, first edition; [2], vii, [1], [iii]-iv (issued in parts, the preliminary material issued with last number, in this copy the index has been incorrectly put before the preface but all present), 242 pp., 10 plates with printed guards, all uncolored; contemporary cloth lightened at margins and rubbed at extremities, light general age toning, but a sound, near very good copy. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: entomology, moths, mnh
Item #: 807616
$37.95
The Entomologist's Annual for MDCCCLV. Comprising notices of the new British insects detected in 1854. Second edition, with considerable additions.
Stainton, H. T., ed.
/ London: John Van Voorst 1855
first edition; 12mo, x, [2], 153, [1], [6] (ads) pp., color plate as frontispiece; yellow printed paper covered boards darkened with sides detached and spine chipped, signature of an early owner becoming disbound, complete but reading copy. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: entomology, Great Britain, MNH
Item #: 807611
$15.22