‎Entomology‎

‎ENTOMOLOGY. Moffet Thomas 1553 1604; Penny Thomas ca. 1530 1589‎

‎Insectorvm Sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrvm: Olim ab Edoardo Wottono. Conrado Gesnero. Thomaqve Pennio inchoatum: Tandem Tho. Movfeti Londinatis opera sumptibusq; maximis concinnatum auctum perfectum: Et ad vivum expressis Iconibus supra quingentis illustratum.‎

‎<p>London: ex Officina typographica Thom. Cotes. Et venales extant apud Guiliel. Hope ad insigne Chirothechae prope regium Excambium 1634. </p><p>Price: $14000.00 </p><p>Folio: 29.4 x 19.5 cm. A6 a4 B-Z6 Aa-Dd6 Ee4 </p><p>FIRST EDITION of the "true foundation of modern entomology"Raven English Naturalists from Neckham to Ray 1947.</p><p>A very fine copy bound in contemporary vellum spine restored. The text is in excellent crisp condition with a few scattered rust spots a few lightly spotted leaves and one natural paper flaw leaf X3 with no loss. Illustrated with a decorative woodcut title vignette and over 500 individual woodcuts of insects. Very uncommon in such fine original condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 'Insectorvm Sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrvm' Theater of Insects the Smallest of Animals is the first substantial scientific treatise devoted exclusively to entomology and the first original treatise devoted to natural history composed in England. At its nucleus is the research of no less than Conrad Gessner who failed to complete a volume on insects for his vast and revolutionary zoological encyclopedia. Gessner's work was carried to fruition by two English naturalists Thomas Penny and his colleague Thomas Moffet with the invaluable assistance of an international network of contacts. In its final form the "Theater of Insects" brought together information from sources in Asia England Europe Africa and the Americas conducted over the course of two generations from the age of the great taxonomic researches of Aldrovandi and Gessner to the age of Bacon and the early modern scientific revolution.</p><p><br /></p><p>The book's importance is thus two-fold: first as a watershed in the study of insects and second as a record of and testament to a remarkable collaborative effort by an international group of scientists physicians artists and laymen many unknown to each other but all drawn into association as contributors to the entomological studies of Penny and Moffet.</p><p><br /></p><p>"In putting together the materials that would eventually be published as 'Theatrum Insectorum' Penny and Moffet amassed a large collection of information specimens and images of insects from contacts and correspondents with widely varying backgrounds. The members of this group ranged from some of the most learned naturalists of sixteenth-century Europe to gentlemen collectors in England to friends and travelers to foreign lands whose interest in insects led them to endure ferocious bites and filthy ditches to unnamed individuals who were paid to make observations of insects… </p><p><br /></p><p>"Moffet and Penny probably formed their friendship while Moffet was a student at Trinity College Cambridge. The materials on insects that formed the nucleus of their book were obtained by Penny during his travels in Europe from 1565 to 1569 during which time his interest in natural history was stimulated and encouraged. Penny arrived in Zurich in 1565 to meet Conrad Gessner and presented him with drawings and specimens of English plants… In exchange for these botanical materials Gessner made Penny a gift of the pictures and notes on insects that he had been gathering over the years." Neri The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe 1500-1700</p><p><br /></p><p>During this time abroad Penny cultivated contacts and correspondents within Gessner's international network of naturalists among them Carolus Clusius Mathias L'Obel and Jean Bauhin and when he turned from botanical studies to work in earnest on the study of insects he drew upon these same contacts for specimens information and drawings.</p><p><br /></p><p>"Over the years Penny received several unusual flies a moth a butterfly four rare beetles and an African mantis from Clusius. Camerarius sent an unusual fly several beetles and a caterpillar. In some cases the text of the 'Theatrum' specifically notes that Penny received an image as opposed to a specimen as in the case of the rare 'horse-nose beetle' which 'Clusius sent painted from Vienna."Ibid.</p><p><br /></p><p>In England Penny acquired the notes on insects made by Edward Wotton of Oxford; among those who sent Moffet specimens and illustrations was John White the Virginian pioneer who contributed the drawing for the swallowtail butterfly Pailio glaucus L. a woodcut of which occupies three quarters of page 98 in the printed text. </p><p><br /></p><p>When Penny died Moffet finding himself in a position analogous to that in which Penny found himself when he was given Gessner's notes was tasked with completing the work. "In taking up the project of bringing Penny's unpublished research to publication Moffet was tasked with organizing and paring down what seems to have been a very large amount of material something Penny was not able to accomplish during his own lifetime."Ibid. </p><p><br /></p><p>According to Moffet Penny left his draft and other documents "in a confused heap." Moffet also tells us that they were about to be thrown away by Penny's executors when Moffet redeemed them for "a great sum of money." By 1590 Moffet had finished editing the work and was negotiating for publication in The Hague. That fell through however and Moffet was unable to find a printer in England. After Moffet's death the apothecary known as "Mr. Darnell" sold the manuscript to the physician Theodore de Mayerne who eventually published it in 1634.</p><p><br /></p><p>"The 'Theatrum insectorum' itself is a systematic treatise dealing with the habits habitat breeding and economic importance of insects beginning with bees which are accorded the most detailed treatments. The observations and illustrations… are of considerable interest. Moffet usually described the larval and adult forms separately and was aware that 'There are so many kindes of Butter-flies as there are of Cankerwormes'. He further discussed the emergence of either butterflies or 'ordinarie Flyes' now known to be parasitic wasps from similar pupae and described both the depredations wrought by locusts in Europe and their use as food. He also recorded observations of the movement of the tongue of the chameleon in feeding." DSB.</p><p>Garrison-Morton 288; Lisney pp. 4-9; Norman 1528; Raven English naturalists ch. 10; STC 17993a; Huntington Catalogue p. 297; Nissen 2852; Horn.-Schenkl. III 15547; Hagen I 553</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p> ex Officina typographica Thom. Cotes. Et venales extant apud Guiliel. Hope, ad insigne Chirothechae, prope regium Excambium, books‎

Bookseller reference : 3993

‎Erichson, G.F.‎

‎Genera Dycticeorum. (Dissertatio Inauguralis).‎

‎1832 [4], 48 p., later (ca. 1900) red pebbled half cloth with gilt lettering and marbled boards. Some slight foxing in first 4 pages, else good and well bound copy of this rare work.‎

Bookseller reference : EC34714

‎Ericson, Ruth O.‎

‎A glossary of some foreign-language terms in entomology.‎

‎1961 Agricultur Handbook n° 218, 1961 : in-8, brochà iv, 59 pp., 4 figures in-texte, couverture crÚme imprimÃe. TrÚs bon Ãtat, cachet discret sur 1° plat et page de titre.‎

Bookseller reference : EG32645

‎Ernest CHARVET - Charles JANET - Abbé RENET - L. REGNIER et J. LE BRET - Abbé SEILLIER - Dr BAUDON. - MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE ACADEMIQUE D'ARCHEOLOGIE, SCIENCES & ARTS DU DEPARTEMENT DE L'OISE.‎

‎MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE ACADEMIQUE D'ARCHEOLOGIE, SCIENCES & ARTS DU DEPARTEMENT DE L'OISE. (Tome XV. Troisième partie - 1894). - Etudes sur les fourmis, (5ème Note) sur la morphologie du squelette des segments post-thoraciques chez les Myrmicides (Myrmica rubra L. femelle). - Canton de Mouy, géologie et fossiles, mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles vivant actuellement dans le canton de Mouy. - Crèvecoeur-le-Grand (Oise) La seigneurie, la paroisse, le bourg (Première partie, suite à suivre). - Variétés (L'hôtel des évêques de Beauvais à Paris. La noblesse de Jean Juvénal des Ursins. Jacques de Guehengnies et Jean de Lignières. L'entreprise de Ricarville. La captivité de Talbot et la mort de d'Arundel). - Documents pour servir à l'histoire de Mouy pendant la Révolution. - Extraits d'un obituaire de l'église Saint-André. - Milly, Chapitre IV : Mouvance de la Châtellerie (suite à continuer). - Epigraphie du canton de Chaumont-en-Vexin (suite à suivre).‎

‎Imprimerie de D. PERE, Beauvais 1894. - Broché in-8. Couverture imprimée du titre et encadrements typographiques en noir. 302 pages (pagination de 289 à 590). Illustré de figures dans le texte, 4 hors-texte dont une planche (Hôtel des évêques de Beauvais à Paris) et 3 hors-texte reproduisant 191 armoiries en noir de la mouvance de Milly . - (Quelques manques de papier aux plats de couverture, défraîchie ; manques de papier au dos, recollé. Intérieur frais). Bon exemplaire.‎

‎Etudes sur les fourmis, (5ème Note) sur la morphologie du squelette des segments post-thoraciques chez les Myrmicides (Myrmica rubra L. femelle, par Charles Janet (21 pages, avec figures). - Canton de Mouy, géologie et fossiles, mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles vivant actuellement dans le canton de Mouy, par Dr Baudon (14 pages). - Crèvecoeur-le-Grand (Oise) La seigneurie, la paroisse, le bourg, par l'Abbé Seillier (51 pages, Première partie, suite à suivre). - Variétés (L'hôtel des évêques de Beauvais à Paris. La noblesse de Jean Juvénal des Ursins. Jacques de Guehengnies et Jean de Lignières. L'entreprise de Ricarville. La captivité de Talbot et la mort de d'Arundel), par Ernest Charvet (19 pages + 1 planche). - Documents pour servir à l'histoire de Mouy pendant la Révolution, par Dr Baudon (24 pages). - Extraits d'un obituaire de l'église Saint-André, par Ernest Charvet (7 pages). - Milly, Chapitre IV : Mouvance de la Châtellerie, par l'Abbé Renet (92 pages dont 3pp d'armoiries nb, suite à continuer). - Epigraphie du canton de Chaumont-en-Vexin, par L. Régnier et J. Le Bret (54 pages, suite à suivre). - Liste des membres de la société académique, des membres correspondants, des sociétés correspondantes (10 pages).‎

Bookseller reference : 4485

‎Esaki, T. et al.‎

‎Icones Heterocerorum Japonicorum In Coloribus Naturalibus. Volume 1.‎

‎1959 xix, 318 p., 98 figures, 64 coloured plates, decorated publisherâs cloth. Library stamps, but else good copy.‎

Bookseller reference : EL37158

‎Esben-Petersen, P.‎

‎Danmarks Fauna. Netvinger og Skorpionfluer (Neuroptera & Mecoptera).‎

‎1929 134 p., 90 figs, half cloth (original front cover laid on). Library stamp (Zoologisch Museum Amsterdam). In Danish.‎

Bookseller reference : EO30305

‎Escherich, K.‎

‎Die Ameise. Schilderung ihrer Lebensweise.‎

‎1917 (2nd ed.) xvi, 348 p., 98 figures, half cloth (printed covers). Library stamps and removed sticker mark on upper margin front cover, else a good copy of the second revised edition.‎

Bookseller reference : EH37911

‎Escherich, K.‎

‎Die Termiten oder Weissen Ameisen.‎

‎1909 xii, 198 p., 51 figs, col. frontispiece, paperbound. Ex library Dr. W.G.N. van der Sleen (with his stamp).‎

Bookseller reference : EO21247

‎Escherich, K.‎

‎Ueber die Bildung der KeimblÀtter bei den Musciden.‎

‎1900 69 p., 10 figs, 3 double tinted lithographed pls, roy. 4to, disbound (no covers). Unopened copy. Published in: Nova Acta. Abh. der Kaiserl. Leop.-Carol. Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher.‎

Bookseller reference : ED34925

‎Essayan, Roland‎

‎Contribution lÃpidoptÃrique franÃaise à la cartographie des invertÃbrÃs europÃens (C.I.E.), XVII : La cartographie des Satyrines de France (Erebia non compris) (Lep. Nymphalidae Satyrinae).‎

‎1990 Alexanor, 16 (5), 1990 : In-8 Raisin, BrochÃ. extrait, pp. 291-328, 39 cartes de rÃpartitions in-texte, TrÚs bon Ãtat, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, IntÃrieur frais.‎

Bookseller reference : EL31175

‎Essig, E.O.‎

‎Injurious and beneficial insects of California.‎

‎1915 (2ned.) lxxxi, 541 pp., 503 text figures, cloth (original printed wrappers bound in).The second edition being a supplement to the Commission's Monthly Bulletin, with a new preface and more information than in the 1894 first. This copy once owned by the Linnean Society of London with their stamp in the lower margin of the front wrapper and title page, and spine foot, and the "rules for borrowing a book" on the front poste-down. otherwise an excellent clean, well-bound copy. Scarce in this state.‎

Bookseller reference : EG27197

‎Eugenio Balestrazzi‎

‎Butterflywatching Come osservare, fotografare, allevare le farfalle‎

‎in 8° quadrato, cartone edit. con titoli al dorso e sovrac. ill., minime tracce d'uso alla sovrac. - prima edizione - fotografie di Eugenio Balestrazzi e disegni di Silvia Gandini a colori nel testo‎

‎Evans (Howard E.)‎

‎La vie sur une planète mal connue - Essai nature, Adapté de l'américain par Paule Fougère‎

‎Editions Stock Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1970 Book Condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur grand In-8 1 vol. - 237 pages‎

‎plusieurs figures dans le texte en noir et blanc 1ere traduction en français Contents, Chapitres : Univers vu d'une maison de banlieue - Cités dans le sol, les collemboles - Le monde sentimental et intellectuel des cafards - Lézards d'eau et libellules - Poète et pugiliste, le grillon - La magie des lucioles - Intermèdes dans les prairies élyséennes, les papillons - Chants en l'honneur d'une voluptueuse, la mouche - Punaises et autres insectes amicaux - L'année de la locuste - Les guêpes parasites - Printemps, silence et compagnie - L'utilité de la nature - Notes papier un peu jauni, sinon bon etat‎

Bookseller reference : 66033

‎EVANS Arthur‎

‎Journal entomology society south Africa revision of the Genus Oedanomersu Waterhouse‎

‎Non Renseigné. 1987. In-8. En feuillets. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Tiré à part de la page 357-362, illustré de figures.. . . . Classification Dewey : 595.7-Entomologie‎

‎En anglais Classification Dewey : 595.7-Entomologie‎

Bookseller reference : RO20018957

‎Evans, Alwen M.‎

‎A short illustrated guide to the Anophelines of tropical and south Africa.‎

‎1927 London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1927 : in-8, cartonnage Ãditeur 78 pp., 12 planches hors-texte, 10 figures in-texte, pleine toile verte de l'Ãditeur. Bon Ãtat, quelques annotations au crayon de papier, 3 cachets en page de titre.‎

Bookseller reference : ED32336

‎Evans, H.E.‎

‎A revision of the Mexican and Central American Spider Wasps of the Subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae).‎

‎1966 ii, 442 p., 11 plates, 79 distribution maps, paperbound. Ex library J. van der Vecht (with his signature). Library stamps, upper margins covers faded, else a good copy of this scarce title.‎

Bookseller reference : EH37918

‎Evans, H.E.‎

‎The Bethylidae of America North of Mexico.‎

‎1978 332 p., several maps, 23 plates depicting 159 figures, black gilt-titled cloth. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. Number 27. Library stamps, else a good copy. Scarce.‎

Bookseller reference : EH37921

‎Evans, H.E.‎

‎Wasp Farm.‎

‎1964 viii, 178, [1] p., 16 figures, 16 plates, hardbound (dust jacket). Library stamps, else a good copy.‎

Bookseller reference : EH37919

‎Evans, H.E. & R.W. Matthews‎

‎Systematics and nesting behavior of Australian Bembix sand wasps (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae).‎

‎1973 iv, 390 p., several maps, 38 plates, black gilt-titled cloth. An excellent systematical revision with new species, distribution maps, etc. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. Number 20. Library stamps and number on lower end spine, otherwise a good clean copy.‎

Bookseller reference : EH27198

‎Evans, J.W.‎

‎A natural classification of leaf-hoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Parts 2-3: Aetalionidae, Hylicidae, Eurymelidae and Jassidae.‎

‎1946-1947 Two parts (of three) in two. 82 p., numerous figures, contemporary half cloth with mounted front cover. With many new genus and species level taxa. Complete for the groups covered. Small stamp on front board, otherwise good.‎

Bookseller reference : EW27199

‎Evans, W.H.‎

‎A Catalogue of the American Hesperiidae. Indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in the British Museum (Natural History). Part III (Groups E.F.G) Pyrginae. Section 2.‎

‎1953 v, 246 p., 28 plates, blue publisherâs cloth. Library stamps. Some annotations in pencil.‎

Bookseller reference : EL37612

‎Evans, W.H.‎

‎A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum Natural History.‎

‎1949 xix, 502 p., 53 (11 coloured) plates, blue publisherâs cloth. Library stamps, else good copy.‎

Bookseller reference : EL37273

‎Everts, E.‎

‎Coleoptera Neerlandica. De Schildvleugelige Insecten van Nederland en het aangrenzend gebied. Vols 1-3.‎

‎1898-1922 xxx, 2135 p., 143 figs, 14 pls, contemporary hcalf (somewhat rubbed, especially volume 1). With some annotations (mostly in pencil). One gathering partly loose. Tipped in are two original photographs of the author (Everts)!‎

Bookseller reference : EC16109

‎EVRARD Eugène‎

‎Le monde des abeilles. Bibliothèque scientifique.‎

‎Paris, Payot, 1928. 14 x 23, 306 pp., broché, bon état (couverture défraîchie).‎

Bookseller reference : 93490

‎F. Silvestri‎

‎Importanza dell'Entomologia nell'Economia Mondiale‎

‎Estratto da "VII. Internationaler Kongress fur Entomologie", Berlin, 15-20 August 1936. Rilegatura spillata con titolo al piatto, copertina morbida parzialmente distaccata con lievi segni di uso, pagine lievemente brunite ben conservate Numero Pagine 15 USATO‎