Search Results: Authors starting with W from Pemberley Natural History Books

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1957. 60, 4 plates. . PB. Some foxing to wrapper. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Vol. 135 (5).

London: Academic Press, 1986. xviii, 389, text figs. . HB. Vg in d/w.. 13th Symposium of the Royal Entomological Society of London.. [9780127289007]

Harvard University Press, 2003. xiv, 616, b/w photos, text figs. . HB. Vg in d/w. From the library of Nicholas Gould (1941-2014), former editor of 'International Zoo News', with his book-plate to endpaper.. . [9780674009295]

1965. 6, . . PB. Vg.. Reprinted from <i>Nature</i>, Vol. 207, No. 5003, pp. 1232-1234..

Pisces Publications, 2003. viii, 136, col photos, distrib maps. . HB. Fine in d/w.. . [9781874357230]

Goecke & Evers, 2013. 256, 167 plates (394 col photos). . HB. NEW. . Text German. Supplement to vols. 1-4. [9783937783581]

London: HMSO, 1994. viii, 379, 1019 distribution maps, text figs, 3 maps. . PB. Vg.. . [9780113100460]

Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, 1970. 236, 2 plates, 2 folding maps. . HB. Vg in d/w. Owner's name to endpaper.. .

Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, 1970. 236, 2 plates, 2 folding maps. . HB. Vg in d/w (rubbed to extremities).. .

London: HMSO, 1994. viii, 379, 1019 distribution maps, text figs, 3 maps. . PB. Vg.. . [9780113100460]

London, Hull & York: A. Brown & Co., n.d. [1907]. [2], 41, [3]-ads, 12 b/w plates. . HB. Sm. 8vo (183x127mm), recent boards, printed title label to front cover. Lacks original wrappers and initial leaf of advertisements. A couple of light stains to frontispiece and title page.. Second Edition. Very scarce. A footnote on the final page states, 'This pamphlet is founded on a paper, originally read to the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club, which was printed in the Club's Transactions, and subsequently reprinted.' Edward Walter Wade (1864-1937) 'worked as a clerk for the family timber company in Hull and in his spare time visited Bempton Cliffs, where he climbed (routinely without a rope) to observe the seabirds and to collect eggs. He was an active member of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club and became one of their Vice-Presidents and President. Between 1902 and 1920 he was a member of the British Ornithologists' Union. Wade's published… Read More

MacMillan, 1953. xx, 531, 20 plates. . HB. Ex-library copy; labels to end papers; small label on spine; lacks plate XX (Geological map of India). 3rd edition.

London: Phaidon Press, 1950. viii, 398, 151 col and 8 b/w reproductions of paintings and 32 woodcut reproductions. . HB. Cloth. In d/w, worn at ends of spine. Some light foxing to endpapers. From the library of Prof. A.J.E. Cave. Good.. Translated from the German..

Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, [1937]. 224, 624 text figs + line drawings. . HB. 8vo, later buckram, orig. front wrapper retained. Paper slightly browned; occasional pencil marginal annotation. Vg.. Text German..

Fulda und Hersfeld: A. Maier'sche Buchhandlung, 1861. iv, 41, 1 folding lithographic plate. . HB. Orig. printed boards, wear to spine. Ex-lib.: a few small ink stamps; small label removed from top of first page. Text German. Early work on the Hessian fly Mayetiola destructor..

Princeton University Press, 2005. 496, 1200+ col photos, line drawings. . PB. NEW. . Enables identification of caterpillars of nearly 700 butterflies and moths found east of the Mississippi. 400 detailed species accounts, with information on distribution, seasonal appearance, foodplants, life history. Many caterpillars illustrated for the first time. New foodplant records. [9780691121444]

Berlin: W. Junk, 1913-1919. 440, . . HB. 8vo, cont. buckram, contrasting spine labels, rubbed/scuffed, orig. wrappers, retained. From an institutional library, withdrawn stamps to endpapers and wrapper only. Final part with paper browned, a few blank page corners missing.. 12 (1913): Sphingidae: Acherontiinae; 18 (1914): Sphingindae: Ambulicinae, Sesiinae; 21 (1915): Sphingidae: Philampelinae; 23 (1919) Sphingidae, Choerocampinae..

Leiden: Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, 1994. 338, 500 figs. . PB. Vg.. Zoologische Verhandelingen 291. [9789073239302]

Berlin: W. Junk, 1911. 26, . . HB. Roy. 8vo, later buckram, leather title pieces, orig. wrappers retained. Interleaved, padded with blanks to rear. From an institutional library, a few neat ink stamps. Good.. .

London: Witherby, 1970. xv, 205, 139 text figs. . HB. Vg in d/w (a few small tears). Top edge slightly spotted. From the library of Trevor James (1947-2020), Hertfordshire naturalist and coleopterist, with his bookplate. Vg.. Text figures by Elizabeth M. Begg..