A Lady [Catherine Ann Dorset Turner]. The Peacock “At Home”. A Sequel to the Butterfly’s Ball.
Facs. Rep. Pub. Griffith & Farran. 1883 pp.x, 16 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Signature. Softback. Contents nr. fine with some spotting. Illustrated paper covers good to vg., sunned with chipping to edges.
£15.00 [ref: 64577]

Alford, D.V. Bumblebee Distribution Maps Scheme. Guide to the British Species.
1st. Ed. Pub. Bee Research Assoc. 1973 pp.48 with 45 b/w. figs. 8vo. Softback. Small owner’s label. Nr. fine. Spring 1974 Progress Report produced by the BRA regarding the scheme, loosely inserted.
Not distribution maps, but a guide to the British species of bumblebees with keys and illustrations.
£12.00 [ref: 64264]

Alford, D.V. Bumblebees.
1st. Ed. Pub. Davis-Poynter. 1975 pp.xii, 352 with colour and b/w. photos., and illus. Small 4to. Neat signature to front pastedown. Nr. fine hardback in nr. fine dw. Scarce.
The much preferred hardback first edition with colour and b/w. plates which were omitted from the later reprint.
£65.00 [ref: 60669]

Allan, P.B.M. Moths and Memories.
1st. Ed. Pub. Watkins & Doncaster. 1948 pp.316 with b/w. frontis. 8vo. Hardback. Some spotting at ends and to text block edges o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards thor. vg. with gentle sunning and some spotting. Scarce.
£45.00 [ref: 63716]

Allan, P.B.M. & Wilkinson, R.S. (Ed.). Leaves from a Moth-Hunter’s Notebook.
1st. Ed. Pub. E.W. Classey Ltd. 1980 pp.281 with portrait frontis. 8vo. Fine hardback.
Published posthumously, edited and with an introduction by Ronald S. Wilkinson. Philip Bertram Murray Allan (1884-1973) was the British lepidopterist, writer, and publisher who wrote many articles under the pseudonym Old Moth Hunter or O.M.H.
£49.50 [ref: 71541]

Anderson, J.E. & Kays, H.K. (Eds.). Perspectives in Forest Entomology.
1st. Ed. Pub. Academic Press. 1976 pp.xxiii, 428 with b/w. photos., figs., and tables. 8vo. Fine hardback.
Presents detailed information on forest pest management.
£15.00 [ref: 56368]

Anderson, R. (et al). Irish Coleoptera. A Revised and Annotated List.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Irish Naturalists’ Journal. 1997 pp.81. 4to. Nr. fine softback with typed 4-page index to families and genera loosely inserted.
£12.50 [ref: 63602]

Antram, C.B. Butterflies of India.
1st. Ed. Pub. Thacker, Spink & Co. 1924 pp.xvi, 226 with b/w. illus. throughout. Small 4to. Hardback. Cords a little streched internally. Several informed notes/amendments in pencil. Contents nr. fine. Original gilt decorated cloth boards in good condition. With two additional publisher’s images neatly inserted as errata.
The long-title continues ‘With illustrations of practically every species for easy identification’.
£45.00 [ref: 61424]

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Archer, M. (Ed.). BWARS Members’ Handbook. Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society.
3rd. Ed. Pub. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. 2005 pp.158 with b/w. illus. 4to. Fine softback.
Provides information on collecting, preserving, conserving, and recording the Aculeata (hymenoptera, parasitica and symphyta).
£12.50 [ref: 61949]

Arnold, V.W. (et al). The Butterflies and Moths of Bedfordshire.
1st. Ed. Pub. Bedfordshire Natural History Society. 1997 pp.408 with colour photos., b/w. figs. and dist. maps. With 3-page A4 ‘Macro-moth additions’ and 9-page A4 ‘Additions to Microlepidoptera’ produced to update the work loosely inserted. 8vo. Fine hardback, showing some sunning to spine.
Includes historical accounts, foodplants, local flight periods, habitats and population changes.
£25.00 [ref: 51183]