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]

Barth, F.G. A Spider’s World. Senses and Behavior.
1st. Eng. Ed. Pub. Springer. 2001 pp.xiv, 394 with 309 figures including 16 colour plates. Large 8vo. Eric Duffey’s address label. Fine hardback.
Over 400 million years, spiders have developed their sensory organs to a fascinating technical perfection and complexity. In his intriguing book, Professor Friedrich G. Barth puts this technical perfection into the context of "biology", in which the interaction between environment and sensory organs and the selectivity of the senses as a link between environment and behavior play a major role.
£75.00 [ref: 56592]

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]

Betts, C. & Laffoley, D. The Hymenopterist’s Handbook. With ‘A Supplement to the Hymenopterist’s Handbook’.
2nd. Rev. Ed. Pub. Amateur Entomologist Soc. 1986 Two vol. set with numerous b/w. illus. 8vo. Softbacks. Nr. fine. Most recent, extensively revised edition. Long out-of-print & scarce.
£45.00 [ref: 54237]

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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.
£175.00 [ref: 56653]

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]