A.E.S. Collecting Het-Bugs (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). Amateur Entomologists’ Society Leaflet No.15.
1st. Ed. Pub. A.E.S. 1946 pp.12 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. Nr. fine softback.
£8.00 [ref: 54257]

Baehr, B. & M. Welche Spinne ist das? [Which Spider is That.] Kleine Spinnenkunde fur jedermann. [Small Spider Science for Everyone.]
1st. Ed. Pub. Franckh-Kosmos. 1987 pp.127 with colour photos., throughout, plus line drawings. Small 8vo. German with Latin names. Eric Duffey’s copy. Neat dedication by one of the Authors to ffep. A fine softback.
A practical and authoratitive guide.
£5.00 [ref: 56671]

Bellman, H. A Field Guide to the Grasshoppers and Crickets of Britain and Northern Europe.
1st. Ed. Pub. Collins. 1988 pp.213 with colour photographs throughout. A vg. copy in illus. boards.
£25.00 [ref: 46643]

Bonnet, Pierre. Bibliographia Araneorum. Analyse Methodique De Toute La Litterature Araneologique Jusqu’en 1939. Tome 1-3.
1st. Ed. Pub. Imprimerie Douladoure. 1945-1961 Three volume set bound in seven with 28 b/w. plates. 8vo. Hardbacks. Eric Duffey’s small address label. Contents fine. An uncut set. Bound (for Eric Duffey) in green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spines, all in fine condition. A superb, complete, set of this very important and highly prized work.
Comes with three original publisher’s flyers providing updates on how the work was progressing. Also loosely inserted, a copy of Pierre Bonnet’s ‘En marge de Bibliographia Araneorum’ (1961) in which he presents five poems from his ‘De la Nomenclature en Sciences naturelles’.
£950.00 [ref: 56579]

Brignoli, P.M. A Catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981.
1st. Ed. Pub. Manchester Uni. Press. 1983 pp.xi, 755. 8vo. Eric Duffey’s address label and bookplate. A fine hardback.
Important and indispensable standard work, it contains a bibliography of the taxonomically relevant literature which appeared during the reporting period, as well as a list of all newly described species.
£150.00 [ref: 56600]

British Museum Natural History. British Mosquitoes and their Control.
4th. Ed. Pub. British Museum Natural History. 1958 pp.23 with line drawings. Fine softback.
£4.00 [ref: 46540]

Buchar, J. & Ruzicka, V. (with Merret. P. (Ed.)). Catalogue of Spiders of the Czech Republic.
1st. Ed. Pub. Peres Publishers. 2002 pp.349 with b/w. dist maps. 4to. Text in English and Czech. Eric Duffey’s address label. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. With publisher’s (A4) Key Card / Glossary loosely inserted. With a thank-you letter from one of the authors to Eric Duffey loosely inserted. A few notes by Eric Duffey, on small pieces of paper, loosely inserted. Out-of-print.
Provides a review on all 830 spider species hitherto known from the Czech Republic. Designed as a classical catalogue, the book lists data on distribution, habitats, altitudinal ranges, frequency etc for each species.
£75.00 [ref: 56653]

Buxton, P.A. The Natural History of Tsetse Flies. An Account of the Biology of the Genus Glossina (Diptera).
1st. Ed. Pub. H.K. Lewis. 1955 pp.xviii, 816 with text figs. & tables plus 47 b/w. plates with multiple photos. on each to rear. Large 8vo. Stamp and inscription to ffep. Small closed tear to margin of first plate’s text leaf, minor marks to fore-edges of text block o/w. contents fine. Original cloth with gilt lettering in thor. vg. condition.
Buxton’s classic study of the Tsetse fly.
£40.00 [ref: 67283]

Chauvin, R. The World of Ants. A Science-fiction Universe.
1st. Eng. Ed. Pub. Victor Gollancz. 1970 pp.216 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. A vg. hardback in vg. dw.
A detailed and easily absorbed study of Ant natural history.
£7.00 [ref: 54182]

Cooley, R.A. and Kohls, G.M. The Argasidae of North America, Central America and Cuba.
1st. Ed. Pub. Univ. of Notre Dame. 1944 pp.152 with b/w. plates, line drawing and dist. maps. 8vo. Assoc. bookplate. Initials and stamps to ffep. Contents fine. Original cloth boards nr. fine.
The American Midland Naturalist. Monograph No. 1. Treats the Argasidae ticks of North America supported by many fine drawings and photographs of the tick species details.
£30.00 [ref: 67281]

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