Zoologia e fauna

Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Scotland

Murray, A. · 1853 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

William Blackwood & Sons Edinburgh/London viii, 145, . . HB. 8vo, attractively rebound in recent qtr morocco, leather title piece, marbled boards. Discreet owner's name to endpaper. Vg copy.. 'By Andrew Murray of Conland, W.S. … Aided by the Rev. William Little, Messieurs Jame...

Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques. Nos 1-124 [lacking 4 Nos]

Deyrolle, E. (Ed.) · 1869 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Deyrolle Paris 498, . 360x250mm. Unbound. 120 of 216 parts, folio (330x250mm), unbound as issued. This run is from issue 1-124 (July 1869-May 1875), lacking four issues (106, 110, 111 & 121). A few Nos with marginal tears, chipping, fraying, final No with loss to corners (no l...

Monographie des Coléoptères Subpentamères de la famille des Phytophages. Tome 1

Lacordaire, T. · 1845 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

C. Muquardt Bruxelles liii, 740, . . HB. 8vo, nicely rebound, antique style cloth, gt, leather title piece to spine, marbled edges, orig. marbled endpapers preserved; small ink spot to fore edge, two preliminary pages with tear neatly repaired with archival tape, small perfora...

Die Schmetterlinge des südwestlichen Deutschlands inbesondere der umgegend von Frankfurt, Nassau und der Hessischen Staaten, nebst Angabe der Fundarte und Flugplaetze, etc.

Koch, G. · 1856 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Theodor Fischer Cassel xx, 498, 2 lithographed plates (1 col). 8vo. HB. Cont. boards, binding rubbed/worn; hand-written label to spine. Vg. .

Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Insectes. Vol. I-VI

Reaumur, R.A.F. de · 1734 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£1,800.00 (€2,157.90 | $2,378.45 | ¥379,853)

Imprimerie Royale Paris , 267 folding engraved plates, 6 engraved headpieces. 4to. HB. 6 vols, 4to, Vols I-V: orig. calf boards, professionally rebacked in matching style; raised bands, gilt tooling to compartments, corners restored, new endpapers. 'Ex dono authoris' in manusc...

Notice des insectes de la France, réputés venimeaux, tirée des ecrits des naturalistes, des médicins, & de l'observation

Amoreaux, Joseph Pierre · 1789 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Paris viii, 302, (2), 2 engraved plates. 8vo. HB. Later boards, recased + rebacked, spine label. Edges uncut, some gatherings unopened. Occasional light foxing. Preliminaries slightly browned. Vg.. 1st edition. Pierre Joseph Amoreaux (1741-1824) was a French physician, natural...

A Manual of Marine Zoology for the British Isles. Part I-II

Gosse, Philip Henry · 1855 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Van Voorst London xi, 203, (5), 16*; iv, 239, (4), 16*, 335 + 339 woodcuts. . HB. 2 vols, sm. 8vo, orig. cloth, rubbed, minor wear, small chip to foot of one spine, hinges cracked but firm. Occasional light foxing. Vg. bookplate of William Scurfield Grey to both volumes.. 'The...

Macrolepidoptera of the World 16: The African Geometrae

Seitz, A. · 1929 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

Alfred Kernen Stuttgart (ii), 160, 18 col plates. . HB. 4to, rebound, qtr calf, raised bands to spine, gilt tooling to compartments, leather title pieces, teg. Blank padding leaves to rear. Plates clean; final plate with small piece torn from lower corner (not affecting printe...

The Coleoptera of the British Islands. Vol. I-VI

Fowler, W.W.; Donisthorpe, H. · 1887 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.78 | $2,510.59 | ¥400,956)

Reeve London xxxii, 269; 444; 399; 411; 490; xiii, 351, 200 hand-col + 5 plain plates. . HB. 6 vols, roy. 8vo: Vols I-V: bound in half leather, marbled endpapers, teg; joints rubbed/worn, front joint to Vol. I split, still attatched by 2 cords; several other joints partly crac...

Les Mammifères de France

Didier, R.; Rode, P. · 1935 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

Société Nationale d'Acclimatation de France Paris 398, 1 col + 28 b/w plates, 214 text figs. 8vo. . Full tan leather with inlaid dark brown leather pawprint design to spine and front cover; spine slightly faded; a few light scratches and scuffs; hand made marbled endpapers. Or...

Rhopalocera Palaearctica. Papilionindae et Pieridae (Texte + Atlas)

Verity, R. · 1905 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£1,800.00 (€2,157.90 | $2,378.45 | ¥379,853)

Privately published Florence 2 vols: lxxxvi, (2), 368; xii, 86 plates (41 col), 2 folding maps (1 col). . HB. 2 vols, large-4to, bound in two, recased in orig. full tan leather, boards embossed with title and geometric pattern, original endpapers preserved; some rubbing/scuffi...

Rhopalocera Aethiopica. Die Tagfalter des aethiopischen Faunengebietes: Eine systematisch-geographische Studie

Aurivillius, C. · 18981899 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

P.A. Norstedt Stockholm 561, 6 chromolithographed plates. . HB. 4to, recent, brown, full morocco, raised bands to spine, wood-grained endpapers. Fine craft binding by 'M.M.' (Monique Macaux). Contents clean. Some heavy offsetting from plates to facing blank versos of caption l...

The Larvae of the British Butterflies and Moths. Vol. I-IX

Buckler, W.; Stainton, H.T. (Ed.); Porritt, G.T. (Ed.) · 1886 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£700.00 (€839.18 | $924.95 | ¥147,721)

Ray Society London , 164 colour plates. . HB. 9 vols, 8vo, orig. cloth, gilt, teg. A few spines faded; Vol. IX with tear to head of spine, a few others with minor wear. Some with ownership markings/book-plates to endpapers. Vg set.. Complete set. Scarce. The work was published...

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 14: Die Afrikanischen Spinner und Schwärmer

Seitz, A. · 1926 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£500.00 (€599.42 | $660.68 | ¥105,515)

Alfred Kernen Stuttgart 599, 80 col plates. . HB. Well rebound in one vol, half cloth, marbled boards. Last few plates with slight marginal damage.. German edition. Fine chromolithographic plates. Includes the Hawkmoths (Sphingidae) and Silkmoths (Saturniidae)..

Histoire abrégée des Insectes

Geoffroy, E.L. · 1764 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£590.00 (€707.31 | $779.60 | ¥124,507)

Durand Paris (4), xxviii, 523; (4), 690, 22 folding engraved plates, folding table. . HB. 2 vols, 4to, cont. full calf, raised bands to spines, compartments gilt tooled, leather title pieces, marbled endpapers. Corners bumped / worn, some wear head + foot of spines, both spine...

Fauna der Kieler Bucht. 1. Band: Die Hinterkiemer oder Opisthobranchia; 2. Band: Die Prosobranchia und Lamellibranchia

Meyer, H.A.; Moebius, K. · 1865 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£1,250.00 (€1,498.54 | $1,651.70 | ¥263,787)

Wilhelm Engelmann Leipzig 2 vols: pp. x, xxx, 88, (12); viii, xxiv, 139, col map, 3 charts (1 folding, 1 double-page), 40 hand-col + 6 plain lithographed plates. . HB. 2 vols, folio, orig. cloth backed printed boards, with some wear to edges. Errata slip tipped in at rear of v...

Entomologia Edinensis, or a description and history of the Insects found in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh. Coleoptera

Wilson, J.; Duncan, James · 1834 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

William Blackwood / T. Cadell Edinburgh/London vi, [ii], 351, 2 engraved plates. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth-backed boards, worn, front board detached, piece chipped from spine; orig. paper title-label to spine. Lacks half-title. Several gathering sprung, but text block firm. Signa...

The Butterfly Collector's Vade Mecum: with a Synoptical Table of British Butterflies

[Ford, Laetitia] · 1836 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

Longman & Co. London xxiv, 140, 16, 2 hand-col + 3 plain plates. . HB. Sm. 8vo, orig. cloth (minor wear to head/foot of spine). Plain plates with water stain to bottom third. Ownership signature dated 1846 to endpaper. Vg. 16-page publisher's cataloge dated Oct., 1840, bound a...

De Coleopteris novis ac rarioribus minusve cognitis provinciae Novocomi

Comolli, A. · 1837 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Ex Typis Fusi et Socii Ticini Regii [Pavia] 54, . . PB. 8vo, orig. wrapper (Small piece cut from top corner of front wrapper). Pages uncut with wide margins. Some foxing. Occasional contemporary corrections to text. Text Latin. Rare early list of new, rare, and little known Co...

Die Damaster-Coptolabrus-Gruppe der Gattung Carabus

Hauser, G. · 1921 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Gustav Fischer Jena (vi), 394, 11 plates. 8vo. HB. Finely bound in half morocco, raised bands to spine, marbled endpapers, original wrappers retained (including spine - laid down on blank leaf at end). From the library of Donald B. Baker, with his ownership label.. Scarce.