Category: Insects

Volume Jubilaire Victor van Straelen, Directeur de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 1925-1954

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Brussels, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique : 1954

Seller ID: 893

1954 TWO HUGE VOLUMES (15 LBS TOTAL) CONTAINING PAPERS ON PALEONTOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY BY 31 CONTRIBUTORS IN CELEBRATION OF RETIREMENT OF BELGIAN CONSERVATIONIST VICTOR VAN STRAELEN. Two folio volumes, 10 x 13 x 2 inches, card covers, printed title to covers and spines, Vol. I, frontis photograph of van Straelen at his desk, Preface, photographic plate,pp [1] - 640 pp; Vol. II, pp 641 - 1213, pages unopened, many plates with tissue guards, maps, large folding tables, no library or ownership marks, very good. No. 372 of edition limited to 450 copies. TEXT IN FRENCH. CONTENTS: Vol. I: Minerology, Pa...
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A Short Illustrated Guide to the Anophelines of Tropical and South Africa

By: Evans, Alwen M.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, University Press of Liverpool, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. : 1927

Seller ID: 1001

1927 GUIDE TO AFRICAN MOSQUITO VECTORS OF MALARIA BY EXPERT BRITISH ENTOMOLOGIST WITH HER ILLUSTRATIONS--SIGNED BY AUTHOR WITH LETTER TO A COLLEAGUE. 10 1/2 inches tall volume, olive green printed paper covers, inscribed To D. G. S. Carter with the author's Compliments on cover, 79 pp, 10 text-figures and 12 plates, corners bumped, light wear to covers, very good minus. Laid in, ALS from author to Dr. G. S. Carter, dated 5th March 1931, regarding lakes and swamps in Kenya compared to those in Paraguay. ALWEN MYFANWY EVANS (1895 - 1937) was the first female lecturer in Entomology at the Liverpo...
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Bumblebee Economics

By: Heinrich, Bernd

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Press : 1979

Seller ID: 870

CLASSIC FIELD STUDY OF BIOENERGETICS OF THE BUMBLEBEE AND ITS ABILITY TO REGULATE BODY TEMPERETURE. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, orange cloth binding, gilt image of bumblebee to cover, viii, 245 pp, double-page color plate of bumblebees of North and Central America; near-fine in near-fine dust jacket. BERND HEINRICH (born 1940) is a professor emeritus in the biology department at the University of Vermont and is the author of a number of books about nature writing and biology. Heinrich has made major contributions to the study of insect physiology and behavior, as well as bird behavior. In ad...
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Nature at the Desert's Edge. Studies and Observations in the Bagdad Oasis

By: Hingston, R. W. G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, H. F. & G. Witherby : 1925

Seller ID: 959

1925 ECOLOGY OF THE DESERT'S EDGE BY IRISH PHYSICIAN-NATURALIST IN BAGHDAD WHO IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR DESCRIBED A SPIDER AT 22,000 FEET WHILE CLIMBING EVEREST. 9 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, decorative gilt title to spine bookplate of Evert Irving Schlinger to front flyleaf, frontis photo of stork family with tissue guard, 299 pp with 10 illustrations. Spine ends frayed, abrasions to back cover with 3 small holes piercing last pages, back hinge starting; binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Good+. RICHARD WILLIAM GEORGE HINGSTON (1887 - 1966) was an Irish physician, explorer ...
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Image for Traite Anatomique de la Chenille qui Ronge le Bois de Saule, augmentee d'Une Explication Abregee des Planches, et d'Une Description de l'Instrument et des Outils dont l'Auteur s'est Servi, Pour Anatomiser a la Loupe & au Microscope, & pour determiner la force de ses Verres, suivant les rebles de l'Optique, & Mechaniquement

Traite Anatomique de la Chenille qui Ronge le Bois de Saule, augmentee d'Une Explication Abregee des Planches, et d'Une Description de l'Instrument et des Outils dont l'Auteur s'est Servi, Pour Anatomiser a la Loupe & au Microscope, & pour determiner la force de ses Verres, suivant les rebles de l'Optique, & Mechaniquement

By: Lyonet, Pierre

Price: $950.00

Publisher: The Hague, Amsterdam, Pierre Gosse & Daniel Pinet; Marc Michel Rey : 1762

Seller ID: 684

1762 LYONET'S EXQUISITE STUDY OF THE GOAT MOTH CATERPILLAR, ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WORKS ON ANATOMY EVER PUBLISHED. 10 3/4 inches tall hardcover, recent cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplate of Noble Suydam Rustum Maluf to front paste-down, inscribed presentation verso front flyleaf Presented by Miss Broomfield/ ex libris Er. W. A. Broomfield/ August 1852, title page with red and black lettering, xxii, [ii contents], frontis plate of microscope, 616 pp, 18 folding copper plates. Corners bumped, binding tight, bottom of title page has been restored with no loss of text,...
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Image for Adephagous and Clavicorn Coleoptera from the Tertiary Deposits at Florissant, Colorado with Descriptions of a Few Other Forms and a Systematic List of the Non-Rhynchophorous Tertiary Coleoptera of North America

Adephagous and Clavicorn Coleoptera from the Tertiary Deposits at Florissant, Colorado with Descriptions of a Few Other Forms and a Systematic List of the Non-Rhynchophorous Tertiary Coleoptera of North America

By: Scudder SH;

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1900

Seller ID: 115

LARGE PLATES OF BEETLE FOSSILS FROM FLORISSANT, COLORADO, BY SCUDDER, NOTED AMERICAN PALEONTOLOGIST. 11 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 148 pages, 3/4 pebbled red leather with marbled paper covers, spine with raised bands, gilt title, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, handstamp of Joel P. Heatwole on title page, 11 plates with facing descriptions. Corners, edges and spine ends worn, 1' chip to edge of front endpaper, text unmarked; overall very good. The Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is a national monument located in Teller County, Colorado. The location is famous for the abundant an...
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Fleas: Proceedings of the International Conference on Fleas, Ashton Wold, Peterborough, UK, 21-25 June 1997

By: Traub, R. and Starcke, H.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Rotterdam, A.A. Balkema : 1980

Seller ID: 951

1980 ILLUSTRATED PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FLEAS EDITED BY LEADING MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGIST--INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HIM. 10 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt publisher's initials to cover, gilt titlel to spine, inscribed and signed by editor on front flyleaf, x, 420 pp, many illustrations, corners bumped, very good in very good dust jacket in mylar cover. ROBERT TRAUB (1916 - 1996) was a medical entomologist who compared fleas from distant times and places and saw in them clues to the mysteries of evolution and continental drift. Working in the rain forests of As...
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The Social Insects: Their Origin and Evolution

By: Wheeler, William Morton

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co. : 1928

Seller ID: 929

FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON EVOLUTION OF ANTS BY WILLIAM MORTON WHEELER, DEAN OF AMERICAN MYRMECOLOGY IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY. 9 inches tall hardcover, green cloth bindint, publisher's initials blindstamped to cover, gilt title to spine, physician bookplate to front paste-down, xviii, 378 pp, 48 plates; darkening to back endpapers from contact with newsprint, overall very good. WILLIAM MORTON WHEELER (1865 - 1937) was an entomologist at the University of Chicago, followed by the University of Texas, and later became Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural His...
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The Control of Growth and Form: A Study of the Epidermal Cell in an Insect

By: Wigglesworth, V.B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Ithaca, Cornell University Press : 1959

Seller ID: 716

1959 SUPERB ILLUSTRATED EARLY MONOGRAPH ON HORMONAL CONTROL OF GROWTH. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, institutional handstamp to front endpaper, [10], 140 pp, black & white illustrations, very good. VINCENT BRIAN WIGGLESWORTH (1899 - 1994) was a British entomologist who made significant contributions to the field of insect physiology. In particular, he studied metamorphosis. His most significant contribution was the discovery that neurosecretory cells in the brain of the South American kissing bug, Rhodnius prolixus, secrete a crucial hormone...
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The Physiology of Insect Metamorphosis

By: Wigglesworth, V.B.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press : 1954

Seller ID: 944

1954 VB WIGGLESWORTH--FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED CLASSIC MONOGRAPH ON EXPERIMENTAL INSECT PHYSIOLOGY. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, sky blue cloth binding, image of fly center cover, handstamp previous owner name to front paste-down, viii, 152, 45 illustrations, 4 plates. very good in very good price clipped dust jacket in mylar cover. CITED BY SJ GOULD in Ontogeny and Phylogeny: "The most crucial experiments for heterochrony are those that mimic natural occurrences rather than produce developmental anomalies. Wigglesworth (1954, pp. 70-71) submitted fourth-stage larvae of Rhodnius to different ...
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Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte der Insecten 1. Teil [Discourses on the Natural History of Insects, Volume I]

By: Wilhelm, Gottlieb Tobias

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Augsburg, Engelbrecht : 1796

Seller ID: 1281

1796 FIRST EDITION OF INSECT VOLUME (MAINLY BEETLES) WITH 46 SPECTACULAR HAND COLORED COPPER PLATES BY RENOWNED AUGSBURG ENGRAVER. 6 1/2 x 4 x 1 1/2 inches hardcover, green paper covered boards, green leather spine with red leather gilt title label, ink inscription by previous owner dated 3.4.1921 to front free endpaper, engraved title page depicting cherubs in the countryside collecting and mounting insects on a board. 376 pp, 46 hand-colored copper plates. Covers rubbed, corners bumped, gilt spine bright, scattered foxing and browning of text and plates, but colors are vivid and unmarked. Ve...
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Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte der Insecten 2. Teil

By: Wilhelm, Gottlieb Tobias

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Augsburg, Engelbrecht : 1797

Seller ID: 1282

1797 FIRST EDITION OF INSECT VOLUME (BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS) WITH 52 SPECTACULAR HAND COLORED COPPER PLATES BY RENOWNED AUGSBURG ENGRAVER. 6 1/2 x 4 x 1 1/2 inches hardcover, 3/4 leather binding with brown paper covered boards, spine with raised bands, gilt ruled and tooled compartments, and tan leather label with gilt title. Lacking front free endpaper. Engraved title depicting cherub inscribing a memorial to Abraham Christian Wilhelms. 424 pp, 52 hand-colored copper plates. Covers rubbed, corners bumped, gilt spine bright, scattered foxing and browning of text and plates, but colors are vivid...
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Category: Insects