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]

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]

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. Occasional light spotting to contents o/w. vg. plus softback.
The result of forty years of close study, a dissertation on the butterflies of the Eastbourne district.
£15.00 [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]

Alexander, Keith. The Beetles of Gloucestershire. Their status, ecology and distribution.
1st. Ed. The Glos. Naturalists’ Soc. 2018 pp.468 with col. photos. 8vo. Softback. Nr. fine.
The Gloucestershire Naturalist No.31 - Special Issue.
£17.50 [ref: 63039]

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.
£75.00 [ref: 60669]

Allan, P.B.M. Larval Foodplants. A Vade-Mecum for the Field Lepidopterist.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Watkins & Doncaster. 1979 pp.126. 16mo. A little light spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. a fine hardback.
A classic work for the field lepidopterist wishing to collect and rear British macro-Lepidoptera.
£12.50 [ref: 63712]

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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. Talking of Moths.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. E.W. Classey. 1975 pp.xii, 340 with one b/w. illus. 8vo. Spine gently rolled. Light spotting to fore-edge of text block. Thor. vg. hardback.
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.
£45.00 [ref: 63715]