Entomology
140 items found
Houlbert, C. et al.
Faune Entomologique Armoricaine. Publiée par la Station Entomologique de l'Université de Rennes. Tome I-II.
Rennes, Station Entomologique de l'Université de Rennes, 1909-1912. Three parts in three. 8vo (25.0 x 16.5 cm). 624 pp. [viii, 97; 140; 111-311; vi, 172]. 600 text illustrations [146; 149; 150-237; 217]. Near uniform original wrappers.
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Hørring, R. (et al.)
Report on the Fifth Thule Expedition 1921-24. The Danish Expedition to Arctic North America in charge of Knud Rasmussen. Vol. II. No. 6-9. Zoology II. Birds, Fishes. Insects. Crustacea.
Copenhagen, Gylendal, 1937. Large 8vo (28.2 x 18.5 cm). 203 pp. [134; 19; 24; 26]; two folding maps. Original printed wrappers.
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Humphreys, H. N.
The butterfly vivarium. Or, insect home: being an account of a new method of observing the curious metamorphoses of some of the most beautiful of native insects. Comprising also a popular description of the habits and instincts of many of the insects of the various classes referred to; with suggestions for the successful study of entomology by means of an insect vivarium. Illustrated with coloured engravings.
London, William Lay, 1858. 8vo (18.2 x 13.2 cm). xi, 288, [iii] pp., eight hand-coloured steel-engraved plates. Original blue, blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine and large gilt vignette on the front board. All edges gilt.
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Humphreys, H. N.
The butterfly vivarium, or, insect home: being an account of a new method of observing the curious metamorphoses of some of the most beautiful of our native insects. Comprising also a popular description of the habits and instincts of many of the insects of the various classes referred to; with suggestions for the successful study of entomology by means of an insect vivarium.
London, William Lay, 1858. 8vo (18.2 x 13.8 cm). xii, 288, [iv] pp.; eight originally hand-coloured plates, the first (unnumbered) acting as frontispiece. Original burgundy blind-stamped cloth with large gilt vignette on the front board, and gilt ornaments and title on the spine. Red endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Jung, C. C.
Alphabetisches Verzeichnis der bisher bekannten Schmetterlinge aus allen Welttheilen mit ihren Synonymen. [Band I-II] (Complete).
Marktbreit, Knenlein, 1791-1792. Two volumes in two. 8vo (16.6 x 10.2 cm). [viii], 338; [iv], 406 pp.; two nice woodcut vignettes in the text. Uniform contemporary half calf over greyish marbled boards; spines with five raised bands with gilt lines, two ornamental gilt-bordered labels with gilt titles. All edges red.
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Kayser, J. C.
Deutschlands Schmetterlinge mit Berücksichtigung sämmtlicher Europäischer Arten.
Leipzig, Ambr. Abel, [1852]-1859. Two parts (text, atlas) in two. 8vo (23.9 x 16.5 cm). Half title, title, 617 pp. (viii, 608; [i]); 153 engraved plates of which 152 originally hand-coloured, and one plain (and without a number), as intended. Uniform blind, pebbled half cloth over marbled boards.
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Kohl, F. F.
Die Gattungen der Sphegiden.
Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1896. Large 8vo (26.7 x 17.7 cm). Title with pictorial vignette, xii, 284 pp.; 90 text engravings, seven finely lithographed plates. Contemporary black half morocco over peacock marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-lined bands, gilt floral vignettes and dark blue morocco label with gilt title. Floral-patterned endpapers. Marbled edges.
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Krauss, H. A. and J. Vosseler
Beiträge zur Orthopterenfauna Orans (West-Algerien).
Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1896. 8vo (22.5 x 14.8 cm). 42 pp. [515-556]; one chromolithographed plate, double-sized. Contemporary grained half cloth over marbled boards. Original printed front wrapper mounted. Speckled edges.
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Kükenthal, W. and R. Hartmeyer
Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Forschungsreise nach Westindien.
Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1908-1916. Four parts (of six) in one. 8vo (23.3 x 15.9 cm). 586 pp.; one map, 28 plates and 207 text figures. Near contemporary black pebbled cloth. Gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in rear.
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Lamarck, J. B. [P. A. de Monet de]
Systême des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. Présentant leurs caractères essentiels et leurs distribution, d'après la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Hist. Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; précédé du discours d'ouverture du Cours de Zoologie, donné dans le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, l'an 8 de la republique.
Paris, l'Auteur, Deterville, 1801. 8vo (19.2 x 12.0 cm). viii, 432 pp.; seven tables (six larger, folded). Contemporary full tree calf. Spine rich gilt in Empire style with vases and intricate patterns including stars, and red morocco label with gilt title. Boards with gilt-rolled borders. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled red.
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Laspeyres, J. H., J. Jördens and F. E. Esper
Sesiae Europae. Iconibus et descriptionibus illustratae [AND] Geschichte der kleinen Fichtenraupe oder der Larve von der Phalaena Monacha Linn., nebst einen Beitrag zur Berichtigung der Ausrottungsmittel dieser Waldverheererin und einer mit Farben erleuchteten Kupfertafel [AND] "Beobachtungen an einer neuentdeckten Zwitterphaläne des Bombyx Crataegi".
Berlin, Laspeyres, 1801; Hof, Gottfried Adolph Grau, 1798; Erlangen, Wolfgang Walthers, 1778. Three papers in one. 4to (24.5 x 19.1 cm). Laspeyres: Half-title, title with seven fine entomological engravings (each numbered), 32 pp.; one finely engraved and hand-coloured plate (tissue-guarded). Jördens: original green pictorial wrappers; title page, [i], 46, [ii] pp.; one finely engraved and hand-coloured plate. Esper: title page with engraved vignette, 20 pp.; one finely hand-coloured engraved plate. Fine contemporary full calf with elaborate gilt empire-style spine and board edges, and marbled wrappers.
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Latreille, P. A.
Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite aux oeuvres de Buffon, et partie du cours complet d'histoire naturelle rédigé par C. S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tomes 1-14. [The complete Arthropoda].
Paris, F. Dufart, An X-XIII (1802-1805). 14 parts in 14 [complete]. 8vo (19.5 x 12.2 cm). Over 5,000 pp.; 112 finely engraved plates, 14 folding charts. Uniform contemporary polished tree-calf with empire style gilt borders and ornaments. Red and black morocco labels with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Edges yellow, speckled with red.
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Latreille, P. A.
Tableau encyclopédique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature. Insectes.
Paris, Agasse, 1818. Folio (28.5 x 21.4 cm). 165 engraved plates (numbered 1-165). Contemporary full tree calf. Boards with gilt-ruled borders, spine with rich Louis XVI-style gilt-ornamented red and green morocco labels. Marbled endpapers.
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Linnaeus, C.
Amoenitates academicae seu dissertationes variae physicae, medicae botanicae antehac seorsim editae nunc collectae et auctae ... editio tertia curante D. Jo. Christiano Daniele Schrebero.
Erlangen, J. Jacob Palm, 1787-1790. Ten volumes in ten. 8vo. Title pages, 4,691 pp. (1: [ii], 571; 2: [ii], 472; 3: [ii], 464; 4: [ii], 600, [ii]; 5: [ii], 583, [ix]; 6: [ii], 486, [vi]; 7: [ii], 506, [iv]; 8: [ii], 332, [i]; 9: [ii], 331; 10: [iii], 172, 131); 59 folded, engraved plates [17;4;4;4;11 [numbered I-III, I-VIII];6;7;6;0;0]. Uniform contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spines with gilt bands and two light brown, gilt-bordered morocco labels with gilt titles and volume numbers (small, oval labels).
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Lith, J. P. van
Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Psenini. A collection of offprints.
Amsterdam, Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging (NEV), 1966-1979. 20 papers in 20. 8vo (24.0 x 16.0 cm). About 330 pp.; numerous illustrations. Partly in original printed wrappers, partly published without wrappers.
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Mader, J.
Raupenkalender oder Verzeichnis aller Monate in welchen die von Rösel und Kleemann beschriebene und abgebildete Raupen nebst ihrem Futter zu finden sind.
Nürnberg, Raspe (C. J. C. Kleemann), 1785. 8vo (18.8 x 11.7 cm). 120 pp., including title. Contemporary tree calf. Spine with four raised bands; compartments with blind-tooled floral vignettes and red morocco label with title. Floral patterned pastedowns. Red edges.
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Mader, J. and C. F. C. Kleemann
Tyd-wyzer der rupsen, vervattende, van maand tot maand, den tyd der verschyning van de door Rösel en Kleemann, beschreeven en afgebeelde rupsen, benevens haar voedzel. Ten nutte en dienst der liefhebbers opgesteld. Uit het Hoogduitsch. Vermeerderd met eene naamlyst der planten, volgens het samenstel van Linnaeus.
Haarlem, C. H. Bohn, 1779. 8vo (22.0 x 14.4 cm). Title page, [vi], 161 pp. Contemporary mottled boards, no spine cover.
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[Marsigli, L. F. Comte de]
Osservazioni naturali intorno al mare, ed alla grana detta Kermes. Brieve ristretto del saggio fisico intorno alla storia del mare. Scritta alla regia accademia delle scienze di Parigi. Ora esposto in una lettera al'eccellentiss. signor Cristino Martinelli nobile Veneto.
Venezia, Andrea Poletti, 1711. Large 4to (26.6 x 20.6 cm). Half title, title page, 76 pp.; four hand-coloured engraved plates on three leaves. Contemporary blind soft boards, spine with later cloth strip.
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Martini, [F. H. W.] (ed.)
Beschäftigungen der Berliner Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde. Zweeter Band.
Berlin, Joachim Pauli, 1776. 8vo (19.2 x 11.2 cm). Title page with finely engraved vignette; xl, 607 pp.; 14 folded, engraved plates of which ten in original hand-colouring (plates numbered I-XIII, IXA). Original speckled paper covered boards with paper label on the spine. Speckled edges.
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Medvedev, G. S. (ed.)
Opredelitel nasekomych Evropejskoj chasti SSSR [Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR). Tom III chast 3: Pereponchatokrylyye (Hymenoptera).
Leningrad, Akademia Nauk SSSR, 1981. Large 8vo (26.8 x 18.1 cm). 687 pp.; 301 text figures. Original publisher's embossed cloth. Gilt title on front board and spine.
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Medvedev, G. S. (ed.)
Opredelitel nasekomych Evropejskoj chasti SSSR [Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR). Tom IV, Chast 1: Cheshuyekrylyye [Lepidoptera].
Leningrad, Akademia Nauk SSSR, 1978. 4to (26.8 x 17.6) cm, 710, [ii] pp.; 585 (groups of) text figures. Publishers's embossed cloth with gilt title on front board and spine.
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Meigen, J. W.
Systematische Beschreibung der europäischen Schmetterlinge mit Abbildungen auf Steintafeln.
Aachen and Leipzig, [J.] A. Mayer, 1829-1832. 670 pp. (I [1829]: vi, 170; 2 [1830]: iv, 212; 3 [1832]: [ii], 276]); 125 [I-XLII; XLIII-LXXX; LXXXI-CXXV] lithographed plates; a few figures accurately hand-coloured. Uniform later 19th-century green linen boards.
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Michael, A. D.
On the variations in the internal anatomy of the Gamasinae, especially in that of the genital organs, and on their mode of coition.
London, The Zoological Society, 1892. 4to (30.3 x 23.4 cm). Drophead title, 43 pp.; four fine, lithographed plates (one tinted). Original printed wrappers.
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Michaelsen, W. and R. Hartmeyer (eds.)
Die Fauna südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-Australischer Forschungsreise 1905.
Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1907-1914. Four (of five) parts in four. 4to (26.5 x 19.0 cm). 2,143 pp.; one map, 42 plates (some coloured). Contemporary uniform half calf with gilt titles on spines. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. All original printed wrappers bound in.
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Millière, P.
Catalogue raisonné des lépidoptères des Alpes-Maritimes. Seconde Partie - Troisième et Dernière partie.
Cannes, Société des Sciences Naturelles, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Cannes et de l'Arrondissement de Grasse [for the author], 1873-1875. Two parts in one. 8vo (24.6 x 16.2 cm). Half title, two title pages, pp. 141-247, 251-455; two hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary quarter morocco over blind-stamped boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt.
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Möbius, K. [A.]
Die Nester der geselligen Wespen. Beschreibungen neuer Nester- und einiger neuen Wespen-Arten des naturhistorischen Museums zu Hamburg, nebst Betrachtungen über den Nesterbau im Allgemeinen.
Hamburg, Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein Hamburg, 1856. 4to (27.6 x 21.8 cm). 51 pp.; 19 nicely hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary blind boards.
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Monzen, K. and others
Saito Ho-On Kai. (The Saito Gratitude Foundation) Monographs 1 - 5. [AND] Reprints.
Sendai, The General Department of Scientific research Saito Ho-On Kai, 1927-1931. Two volumes in two. 4to (25.3 x 18.5 cm). Numerous pages and illustrations. Uniform blue grained half linen over marbled boards. Spines with gilt titles.
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Müller, H. [L. H.]
Alpenblumen, ihre Befruchtung durch Insekten und ihre Anpassungen an dieselben.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, [1880]-1881. 8vo (22.7 x 15.3 cm). iv, 612 pp.; 173 (groups of) text engravings. Contemporary pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and title. Speckled edges.
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Nees von Esenbeck, C. G. [D.]
Hymenopterorum ichneumonibus affinium, monographiae, genera Europaea et species illustrantes. Volumen Primum, Ichneumonidum Braconoideorum et Alysioideorum, tum evanialium monographias complectens. [AND] Volumen secundum, Pteromalinorum, Codrinorum et Dryineorum monographias complectens.
Stuttgart and Tübingen, J. C. Cotta, 1834. 8vo (21.1 x 12.4 cm). 784 pp. (xii, 320; [iv], 448). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. Edges speckled red.
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Oberthür, C.
Études de lépidopterologie comparée. Volume I.
Rennes, F. C. Oberthür, 1904. 8vo (24.4 x 15.8 cm). 77 pp.; plates I-V; all finely hand-coloured, one heightened with silver, one in double suite; an extra, handwritten plate explanation to plates I-IV bound in the rear. Later blind half cloth over marbled boards.
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Oberthür, C.
Études d'entomologie. Faunes entomologiques. Descriptions d'insectes nouveaux ou peu connus. I. Étude sur la faune des lépidoptères de l'Algerie.
Rennes, Oberthür et fils, 1876. 4to (27.9 x 18.8 cm). 74 pp.; four nice hand-coloured engraved plates. Slightly later half cloth over marbled boards. Dark green morocco strip with gilt title mounted on spine. Original printed wrappers preserved.
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Ogilvie-Grant, W. R. (ed.). a. o.
Reports of the collection made by the British Ornithologists' Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1913.
London, Francis Edwards, 1916. In two volumes. Large 4to (33.2 x 25.6 cm). Text; 41 plates of which 13 in chromolithography; 76 text figures; two fine, coloured, double-sized maps. Original uniform printed wrappers.
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Orbigny, A. [C. V. M. D.] d' [Brullé, G. A. and C. É. Blanchard]
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome sixième. 2.e Partie: Insectes.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1837-1846. Text and atlas. Large 4to and folio (33.3 x 24.9 cm). 220 pp.; 32 finely lithographed and delicately hand-coloured plates [numbered 1-32] with captions providing the species names. Recent quarter cloth over printed boards. Spine with printed label with title.
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Pagenstecher, A. [A. F.]
Lepidopteren. [In; Kükenthal, Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Forschungsreise in den Molukken und Borneo].
Frankfurt am Main, Moritz Diesterweg, 1897. Folio (30.0 x 23.2 cm). 117 pp. [numbered 353-469]; three finely hand-coloured lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers.
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Pallas, P. S.
Dierkundig mengelwerk, in het welke de nieuwe of nog duistere zoorten van dieren door naauwkeurige afbeeldingen, beschryvingen en verhandelingen opgehelderd worden. In het Latyn beschreeven door den heer P. S. Pallas ... vertaald en met aanmerkingen voorzien door P. Boddaert M.D. VI. Stukken. Met plaaten.
Utrecht, Abraham van Paddenburg en J. Van Schoonhoven, 1767-1770. 4to (26.6 x 21.0 cm) [board size 27.5 x 22.0 cm]. General title in red and black, dated 1770; viii, 195, [ii] pp.; ten fine, contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary polished half calf over speckled boards. Spine with triple gilt lines and grained tan morocco label with gilt title.
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Pasquet, O.
Coléoptères de la Manche.
Cherbourg, Société Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et Mathématiques de Cherbourg, 1929. Large 8vo (24.0 x 15.5 cm). Title page, 332 pp., interleaved; large, folded map of the Cotentin Peninsula (Normandy) region. Dark green pebbled morocco over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands, floral vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers. [AND] Six additional items, of which three supplemental to this work.
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Piaget, E.
Les pédiculines. Essai monographique. I (texte), II (atlas), supplement. [Complete].
Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1880-1885. In three volumes. 4to (31.5 x 24.8 cm). 926 [xxxix, 714; 0; xii, 161] pp.; 73 [0, LVI; XVII] tinted lithographed plates. Original near uniform green blind stamped cloth with gilt title on the spines and front boards.
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Pictet, F.
Traité de Paléontologie où histoire naturelle des animaux fossiles considérés dans leurs rapports zoologiques et géologiques. [Text and atlas, complete].
Paris, Baillière, 1853-1857. Five parts in five. 8vo (four text parts; 20.7 x 12.7 cm) and 4to (atlas; 30.7 x 23.5 cm). 2742 pp. [I: xiv, 584; II: 727; III: 654; IV: xvi, 768; Atlas; 77]; 110 fine lithographed plates. contemporary uniform pebbled half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with gilt-bordered bands, and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Ren, G. D. and X. J. Yang
Fauna of soil darkling beetles in China. Vol. 1. Opatriformes. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae).
Beijing, Higher Education Press, 2006. 4to (26.0 x 18.5 cm). vii, 226 pp.; 144 (groups of) text figures, eight full colour plates (one with eight different photos) and one full colour map. Original pictorial paperback.
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