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. 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. 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. Moths and Memories.
1st. Ed. Pub. Watkins & Doncaster. 1948 pp.316 with b/w. frontis. 8vo. Hardback. Light spotting to fore-edges of block edge and to end-papers o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards thor. vg. to nr. fine. Scarce.
£38.00 [ref: 66666]

Allan, P.B.M. Talking of Moths.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Montgomery Press. 1943 pp.xii, 340 with one b/w. photo. 8vo. Hardback. Signature to ffep. Light spotting to fore-edges of text block and occ. internally o/w. contents fine. A little spine lean. Original cloth vg. plus.
First published in 1943 in a print run of less 100 copies due to wartime shortages, 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.
£42.50 [ref: 66667]

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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. Some marking to fore-edge of text block, o/w. a thor. vg. to nr. 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.
£25.00 [ref: 63713]

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]

Anderson, Roy, et al. The Ground Beetles of Northern Ireland. (Coleoptera - Carabidae).
1st. Ed. Pub. Ulster Museum. 2000 pp.x, 246 with colour photos., and dist. maps. 8vo. Bookplate. Fine hardback, spine gently sunned. Out-of-print.
£22.50 [ref: 55589]