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INSECT LIFE
Written by Arabella B. Buckley.
Stock no. 1324906
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1901. Good condition.

Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" series book VI. 8 coloured plates and other illustrations. Blue cloth covered cardwraps. 80 pages. Covers grubby and rubbed. Light browning inside covers. Neat number '20' written in ink to top margin of title-page.

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THE CATERPILLARS OF BRITISH MOTHS (2 VOLUMES)
Written by W.J. Stokoe; G.H.T. Stovin. Illustrated by J.C. Dollman.
Stock no. 1323742
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1948. Very good condition.

Series I and II. Blue imitation leather cloth, gilt titles. Colour and b/w plates. 408 pages plus 381 pages. Wayside and Woodland Series. Spine and corners bumped. Small dent to top edge of front cover. Foxing to endpapers. Front joint (between front and title-page) of volume 1 is cracked. A few light marks to covers.

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BRITISH PYRALID AND PLUME MOTHS
Written by Bryan P. Beirne. Illustrated by S.N.A. Jacobs.
Stock no. 1824127
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1952. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front. Wayside and Woodland series. 216 colour specimens, 16 plates. 207 pages. Boards clean and bright. Scattered foxing, mainly to prelims and endpapers. Text block browned. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed, scuffed, closed tear to top rear edge of spine.

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THE MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND VOLUME 9
Written by John Heath; A. Maitland Emmet. Illustrated by Brian Hargreaves; Maureen Lane.
Stock no. 2140180
Published by Harley Books. 1st thus 1983. Almost very good condition.

Card wraps. Colour and b/w illustrations. Sphingidae - Noctuidae Noctuinae and Hadeninae. Covers several important families of the larger species. Previously published by Curwen Books in 1979. ISBN: 094658916X. Spine and cover edges are browned. Some creasing.

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THE COLOUR IDENTIFICATION GUIDE TO CATERPILLARS OF THE BRITISH ISLES (MACROLEPIDOPTERA)
Written by Jim Porter.
Stock no. 2139685
Published by Viking. 1st 1997. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photographs. ISBN: 0670875090. Some marks to covers. Page edge browning. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few small nicks and chips; unevenly faded.

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MOTHS (NN 90)
Written by Michael E.N. Majerus.
Stock no. 1823471
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 2002. Nearly fine condition.

New Naturalist No. 90. A comprehensive account of the diverse natural history of these fascinating insects. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 0002201429. Covers very lightly scuffed, lower front corner laminate peeling (minor).

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THE COLOUR IDENTIFICATION GUIDE TO CATERPILLARS OF THE BRITISH ISLES (MACROLEPIDOPTERA)
Written by Jim Porter.
Stock no. 2135356
Published by Viking. 1st 1997. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photographs. ISBN: 0670875090. SIGNED by author, with dedication to a previous owner to title page. A few light marks to covers. Wrapper has some fading to spine, with grubby marks in places.

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BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS
Written by Stuart McNeill. Illustrated by Christian Sepp; Jan Christiaan Sepp.
Stock no. 1819072
Published by Michael Joseph. 1st 1978. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Printed on light brown paper. Colour illustrations. 234 pages. ISBN: 0718116887. Pictorial dustwrapper is unevenly faded and browned, a little grubby.

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OF MOTHS AND MEN: AN EVOLUTIONARY TALE
Written by Judith Hooper.
Stock no. 1809430
Published by Fourth Estate. 1st 2002. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Intrigue, Tragedy & The Peppered Moth. How the theory of evolution evolved. Cream boards, gilt title to spine. 377 pages including index. B/w plates. ISBN: 1841153923. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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BACO SETA: IL DISCORSO DEL FILO
Written by Enzo Pifferi.
Stock no. 1806217
1st 1988. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The Silkworm, text in Italian, English, French and German. Large format. Black boards, yellow titles. B/w illustrations, colour photos.

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BUTTERFLIES GALORE
Written by S.C. Fung.
Stock no. 1803008
Published by S.C.Fung. 1st 2000. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Photographic Record of Hong Kong Butterflies and Moths. Grey boards, silver titles. Stunning colour photos. 179 pages. Text in English and Chinese. ISBN: 9628580817. Corners lightly rubbed and bumped, top edges bumped. Contents fine. Pictorial wrapper is lightly edge-creased and slightly scuffed, small closed tear to top rear edge. A beautiful book.

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