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. A nr. fine softback.
£8.00 [ref: 54257]

Acworth, B. Butterfly Miracles and Mysteries.
1st. Ed. Pub.Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1947 pp.xii, 260 with colour frontis. and b/w. illus. 8vo. Illustrated by A.D.A. Russwurm. Thor. vg. hardback.
A thorough natural history of British Butterflies. A.D.A. Russwurm was heavily involved in producing this work. Acworth also thanks F.W. Frohawk for ‘his generosity in allowing [the author] to borrow so liberally from his great work, Natural History of British Butterflies’.
£12.00 [ref: 60362]

Adkin, R. The Butterflies of Eastbourne. Transactions of the Eastbourne Natural History, Photographic and Literary Society Supplement. Vol. IX.
1st. Ed. Pub. Eastbourne Nat. Hist., Photographic and Literary Soc. 1928 pp.61 plus 15 b/w. photographic plates. 8vo. VG. plus softback.
£18.00 [ref: 60366]

Agosta, William. Bombardier Beetles and Fever Trees. A close-up look at chemical warfare and signals in animals and plants.
1st. Ed. Pub. Helix Books. 1996 pp.vii, 224 with some b/w. text illus. Royal 8vo. Hardback. Ex-Univ. of Michigan Lib. copy. Nr. fine.
£12.00 [ref: 52283]

Aitken, Thomas, H.G. Recovery of Anopheline Eggs from Natural Habitats, an Aid to Rapid Work.
Rep.Ann. Ent. Soc. Vol. XLI, No.3. 1948 pp.327-329. Vg. in card covers.
£2.00 [ref: 30022]

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.
£75.00 [ref: 60669]

Allan, P.B.M. A Moth-Hunter’s Gossip.
2nd. Rev. Ed. Pub. Watkins & Doncaster. 1947 pp.269 with b/w. frontis. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback, gently sunned on spine, one small mark to front board. Scarce.
£75.00 [ref: 62194]

Allan, P.B.M. Moths and Memories.
1st. Ed. Pub. Watkins & Doncaster. 1948 pp.316 with b/w. frontis. 8vo. Fine hardback, gently sunned on spine. Scarce.
£60.00 [ref: 62195]

Allan, P.B.M. Talking of Moths.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. E.W. Classey. 1975 pp.xii, 340 with one b/w. illus. 8vo. Thor. vg. / nr. fine hardback. Scarce.
First published in 1943 in a print run of less 100 copies due to wartime shortages, even after this reprint by E. W. Classey, this is the scarcest of Philip Bertram Murray Allan’s entomological books. Among the subjects treated are the reason for the distribution of the Swallowtail, the ideal larvarium, dishonest dealers, and mating behaviours.
£60.00 [ref: 62156]

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Allan, P.B.M. & Wilkinson, R.S. (Ed.). Leaves from a Moth-Hunter’s Notebook.
1st. 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.
£50.00 [ref: 62166]

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