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Immunological techniques in insect biology.

Gilbert, L.I. & T. A. Miller (eds.) · 1988

€38.50 ($42.43 | £32.11 | ¥6,777)

1988 284 p., 71 text figures, original printed rexine covers. Published in the series, "Springer series in experimental entomology", with the preface to the whole series, and eight contributions by 17 different authors. Stamp on title page (cancelled), half-title and front fl...

Ergebnisse der Albanien-Expedition 1961 des Deutschen Entomologischen Institutes. 1-60 (complete).

Friese, G. & E. Königsmann (eds.) · 1962

€418.00 ($460.72 | £348.67 | ¥73,580)

1962-1967 60 parts in one. Hundreds of pages, many text figures, three maps (one folded), contemporary half cloth over patterned boards. Gilt title on the spine. The complete results of a massive entomological survey (thick volume) of the then unknown Albanian fauna. Publish...

Insects affecting park and woodland trees. Volumes I-II. (complete).

Felt, E. · 1905

€38.50 ($42.43 | £32.11 | ¥6,777)

1905-1906 Two parts in two. 877 p., 70 plates, of which 20 are coloured, large 4to, original cloth with gilt titles on spines. Some discolouring of outer edge of front cover. Aimed at identifying the damage, and the culprits (mostly Lepidoptera and Coleoptera). Taxonomically s...

Contribution à l'étude de la Faune entomologique du Chêne Vert en Provence.

Favard, P. · 1962

€27.50 ($30.31 | £22.94 | ¥4,841)

1962 138 p., 74 photographic plates, paperbound. Thesis. Errata slip bound in front. With the author's handwritten dedication on the title page. A very good, clean copy.

Injurious and beneficial insects of California.

Essig, E.O. · 1915

€30.80 ($33.95 | £25.69 | ¥5,422)

1915 (2ned.) lxxxi, 541 pp., 503 text figures, cloth (original printed wrappers bound in). The second edition being a supplement to the Commission's Monthly Bulletin, with a new preface and more information than in the 1894 first. This copy once owned by the Linnean Society o...

Injurious and beneficial Insects of California.

Essig, E.O. · 1894

€27.50 ($30.31 | £22.94 | ¥4,841)

1894 (1st ed.) xxxi, 541 pp., 503 text figures, half calf. The rather rare first edition being a supplement to the Monthly Bulletin of the Californian State Commission of Horticulture. Spine with small split. Ex libris.

Iconographia insectorum Japonicorum. Editio secunda, reformata.

Esaki, T. et al. · 1950

€308.00 ($339.48 | £256.92 | ¥54,217)

1950 1738 p., num. figs, 15 full colour plates, two tables, publisher's half calf over linen boards. Title in silver on spine, small embossed vignette on rear board. Important guide to the insects of Japan. Fifty entomologists have prepared the descriptions of the different ...

The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects. (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida and Crustacea).

Duncan, P.M. · 1880

€38.50 ($42.43 | £32.11 | ¥6,777)

n.d. (ca. 1880) x, 491 p., 36 plates, contemporary green half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers, marbled edges. A fine production with splendid wood-engravings which come from ̑mile Blanchard's "M̩tamorphoses, m...

Entomologie analytique: histoire générale, classification naturelle et méthodique des insectes à l'aide de tableaux synoptiques.

Duméril, A. · 1860

€264.00 ($290.98 | £220.21 | ¥46,472)

1860 Two parts in one. xxii, 1339 p., one folding table, numerous woodcuts, 4to, paperbound (original printed covers). The main entomological work of the French zoologist André Marie Constant Duméril (1774-1860). A huge and rare compilation on the classification and history o...

Natural history of the insects of China, containing upwards of two hundred and twenty figures and descriptions, ..., brought down to the present state of the science, with systematic characters of each species, synonyms, indexes, and other additional matter, by J. O. Westwood.

Donovan, E. & J.O. Westwood · 1842

€132.00 ($145.49 | £110.11 | ¥23,236)

1842 (2nd ed.) [4], 96 p., modern blue cloth with gilt title on spine. Rare. Text only (no plates are present), but the text is also important for its information on Chinese insects, and the updates on the work of Donovan and others. Some foxing in first and last few pages, an...

Atlas de poche des insectes de France utiles ou nuisibles.

Dongé, E. · 1903

€19.80 ($21.82 | £16.52 | ¥3,485)

1903 (2nd ed.) 150 p., 72 full colour plates, original printed cloth. A nicely illustrated pocket book on useful and noxious insects of France. A used copy with several pencilled annotations in the text. Stamps and written names of previous owners on front paste-down, first b...

Des Herrn Baron Karl Von Geer Königlichen Hofmarschalls... Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Insekten. Aus dem Französichen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen herausgegeben von Johann August Ephraim Götze. Zweyten Bandes erstes Quartal [AND] Des zweeten Bandes zweeter Theil [AND] Vierter und Fünfter Band.

Geer, C. De · 1776

€176.00 ($193.99 | £146.81 | ¥30,981)

1776-1781 Four parts in two volumes. 236, [8], 384, [12], [12], 490, [17] p., 4to, nice uniform contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt floral vignettes and red and olive morocco labels with gilt titles. Edged red. One inner joint strengthened with paper st...

Insect flight. Dispersal and migration.

Danthanarayana, W. (ed.) · 1986

€63.80 ($70.32 | £53.22 | ¥11,231)

1986 289 p., 62 text figures, hardbound. With 20 contributions by 33 entomologists and other scientists. Library stamps and sticker on front cover. Slightly bumped.

The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to The Indian Ocean in 1905. Volume IV. Parts 19-28..

Lamb, C.G. et al. [J.S. Gardiner ed.] · 1912

€55.00 ($60.62 | £45.88 | ¥9,682)

1912-1913 In two volumes. 194 p., several figs, 15 pls, large 4to, cloth. Includes: XIX. Lamb, Diptera: Lonchaeidae, Sapromyzidae, Ephydridae, Chloropidae, Agromyzidae. XX. Warburton, The Acarina of the Seychelles. XXI. Sicard, Coleoptera, Coccinellidae. XXII. Budde-Lund, Terr...

The elements of insect anatomy. An outline for the use of students in entomological laboratories.

Comstock, J.H. & V.L. Kellogg · 1912

€22.00 ($24.25 | £18.35 | ¥3,873)

1912 (8th ed.) 145 p., 11 text figures, buckram. Still a useful guide. Some rather vague stamps in several leaf margins, otherwise good.

Insect life. An introduction to nature-study and a guide for teachers, students, and others interested in out-of-door life. With full-page plates from life reproducing insects in natural colors, and with many original illustrations by Anna Botsford Comstock, member of the Society of American Wood Engravers.

Comstock, J. · 1901

€22.00 ($24.25 | £18.35 | ¥3,873)

1901 (2nd ed.) [iv], 349 p., 196 figs, 18 plates (several in colour), full colour frontispiece, original pictorial cloth with gilt title on spine and mounted full colour vignette on front board. A work by the American entomologist John Henry Comstock (1849-1931). Well-illus...

Taxonomia i ekologia zhivotikha Sibiri.

Cherepanov, A. I. (ed.) · 1975

€49.50 ($54.56 | £41.29 | ¥8,713)

1975 126 p., numerous text figures, paperbound (original pictorial covers). A collection of 17 taxonomical and ecological papers on Siberian Acarina, Collembola, Odonata, Homoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera and Diptera with quite a few new species. Well-illustrated...

La machoire des insectes. Détermination de la pièce directrice.

Chatin, J. · 1897

€38.50 ($42.43 | £32.11 | ¥6,777)

1897 203 p., several text figures, paperbound (original printed covers). The author compares the jaws of different insect orders. Uncut, unopened. Very vague erased library stamp and small repair to the top margin of the front wrapper. Signed by the author on half-title.

Les Insectes Inoculateurs de Maladies Infectuieuses.

Just Navarre, P. · 1905

€27.50 ($30.31 | £22.94 | ¥4,841)

1905 60 p., 5 plates, contemporary half cloth, spine with gilt title. Scarce.

Supplementary catalogue of the library of the Entomological Society of London.

Champion, G.C. (ed). · 1900

€24.20 ($26.67 | £20.19 | ¥4,260)

1900 147 p., original blindstamped green cloth with gilt title on spine. Additions run from 1893 to 1900. Uncut. Book plate on front pastedown. A few small pencil marks, otherwise good.