Search Results: Titles starting with V from Pemberley Natural History Books

Italy, 1951. 40, 1 folding chart, text figs. . PB. Stamp to front cover. Text Italian. Estratto dai Rendiconti della Societa Mineralogica Italiana Anno. VII .

Italy, 1952. 44, 1 folding map. . PB. Wrapper slightly soiled. Text Italian. Estratto dai Rendiconti della Societa Mineralogica Italiana Vol.VIII .

CILSS-DFPV, 1989. 126, col illus., distribution maps. . PB. Spine faded, otherwise Vg.. Collection Acridologie Operationnelle no.5. Text French.

Helm, DEC 2021. 400, 360 col photos. . HB. NEW. . The first comprehensive coverage of this subject. Avian vagrancy is a phenomenon that has fascinated natural historians for centuries. From Victorian collectors willing to spend fortunes on a rare specimen, to today's high-octane bird-chasing 'twitchers', the enigma of vagrancy has become a source of obsession for countless birders worldwide. The book explores both pattern and process in avian vagrancy, drawing on recent research to answer a suite of fundamental questions concerning the occurrence of rare birds. For each avian family, the book provides an in-depth analysis of recent and historical vagrancy patterns, representing the first comprehensive assessment of vagrancy at a global scale. The accounts are accompanied by hundreds of previously unpublished images featuring many of the most exceptional vagrants on record. The book synthesises for the first time everything we know about the subject, making the case for vagrancy as a… Read More

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1967. 51, . . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers. Some gatherings unopened. Vg.. <i>Proceedings of the United States National Museum</i> Vol. 121, No. 3579. List of valid names of shells listed in the Portland Catalogue (the auction catalogue of the Duchess of Portland's museum, sold after her death in 1785)..

London: Allman & Son, n.d. [c. 1860s]. iv, 199, . . HB. 12mo, orig. green, blind-stamped cloth, printed endpapers. A few pencil markings to text. Vg.. New edition, with a copius vocabulary..

Natural History Publications (Borneo), 2021. 232, col photos. . HB. NEW. . The book is introduced with the author’s scientific odyssey in the quest for the secretive vampire moths, initiated more than half a century ago in Southeast Asia and nearby regions. The main part of the book presents a synthesis of three decades of research based mainly on his nocturnal field investigations in or near forest habitats. What would appear as perverted feeding habits in insects generally thought as gentle flower visitors are exposed as sophisticated adaptations developed in a select group of less than ten of the 180,000 known species of Lepidoptera. <i>Calyptra</i>’s unique skin-piercing blood-sucking methods are detailed in photographs and diagrams. The moths’ victims range from elephants and rhinoceroses, to tapirs, horses, cattle, deer and pig, and occasionally humans. Other aspects treated include distribution, behaviour, ecology, phenology, and physiology. An identification key… Read More

Washington, D.C.: Stone Wall Press, 1983. xiii, 257, 16 col plates, b/w photos. . HB. Vg in price-clipped d/w. From the library of Prof. J. Green (1928-2016) with his name to endpaper.. Illustrated in-depth look at endangered and threatened species. Colour plates by A. Pahl.. [9780913276433]

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1975. 231, 41 b/w photos, 27 text figs. . HB. Vg in d/w (spine slightly faded; short edge tear).. . [9780715365496]

London: Collins, 1969. 286, col+b/w photos. . HB. Vg in d/w (slight edge-wear; spine faded).. Illustrated by E. Hosking..

Academic Press, 1970. xvi, 403, Numerous figs. . HB. Good ex-lib. copy in d/w; label removed and withdrawn stamp to endpaper.. Symposium Zoo. Soc. London 26. [9780126133264]

Paphia, 2000. xiv, 293, 84 col plates, 53 col photos, 20 b/w figs. 280x200mm. HB. NEW. . The 84 specially commissioned watercolour plates by A.D.A. Russwurm illustrate over 400 specimens. This book is intended as a companion volume to A.D.A. Russwurm's 'Aberrations of British Butterflies', 1978, and has been published to celebrate his 95th birthday. Includes his biography, and an account of the genetic principles involved in the formation of varieties and aberrations.. [9780953723607]

London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1936. viii, 750, 1007 text figs. . HB. Roy. 8vo, orig. cloth (half pebbled cloth with cloth boards). Fine copy. Front of oringinal dust wrapper enclosed. From the library of Prof. A.J.E. Cave, with inscription to him from the author. Two short letters from Colyer to Cave pasted to endpapers. 1st edition. Draws extensively on the material housed in the Odontological Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Considered an indispensable reference for students and research workers in zoology, archaeology and veterinary science, as well as human dentistry.

Paphia, 2000. xiv, 293, 84 col plates, 53 col photos, 20 b/w figs. 280x200mm. HB. Vg in d/w. Presentation inscription, signed by the author, A.S. Harmer, and others.. The 84 specially commissioned watercolour plates by A.D.A. Russwurm illustrate over 400 specimens. This book is intended as a companion volume to A.D.A. Russwurm's 'Aberrations of British Butterflies', 1978, and has been published to celebrate his 95th birthday. Includes his biography, and an account of the genetic principles involved in the formation of varieties and aberrations.. [9780953723607]

London: Ward, Lock & Co., [1946]. 200, 48 col plates. . HB. Small-4to, orig. cloth, spine mottled/spotted, rear board partly faded; endpapers lightly foxed. Good. From the library of British coleopterist, Robert Angus, with his name pencilled to endpaper. Typescript letter concerning his purchase of this book pasted to endpaper.. Dated 1938, but this is the later reprint (remaining stock of the first printing was destroyed during the second world war)..

Ward, Lock & Co., [1946]. 200, 48 col plates. . HB. Small-4to, orig. cloth. Some foxing; edges of text block lightly spotted. Vg. Small ownership stamp to endpaper.. Dated 1938, but this is the later reprint (remaining stock of the first printing was destroyed during the second world war)..

Heterocera Press, 2018. 166, 87 col plates, 33 b/w figs. . HB. NEW. . The fourth (final) part of the series of the Vartian Catalogue, containing the Geometridae material of the Vartian collection preserved in the Natural History Museum Vienna. The Geometridae section of this collection is supposedly the richest western and Central Asiatic reference material of this very diverse and yet insufficiently studied fauna, comprising nearly 22100 specimens of 1353 species-group taxa. The specimens have been collected in altogether 52 countries but the overwhelming majority of the Geometridae specimens originate from Armenia, Transcaucasia, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. There are significant materials having been gathered from the Balkan Peninsula, Spain and Morocco and, naturally, the local fauna of Austria is also well represented in the collection. The complete list of the countries of origin of the Geometridae is presented prior to the collection check list section of the book. All species listed in the… Read More

Heterocera Press, 2015. 229, 183 col plates. . HB. NEW. . The third volume in the series is a detailed summary of the impressively large and beautiful Rhopalocera material of the famous Vartian collection of Lepidoptera held in the Natural History Museum, Vienna. This part of the collection is well represented with North African and Middle East fauna, but also includes material from all continents, including some historical material from Inner Asia and the tropical areas. A total of 1174 species and subspecies are included. This third volume can be used as an identification guide to the Rhopalocera fauna of the Western Palaearctic. The detailed checklist contains information on the countries where specimens of each taxa were collected.. [9786155279041]

Heterocera Press, 2012. 303, 157 col plates. . HB. NEW. . The first volume in this new series presents a catalogue of the Noctuoidea in the Vartian collection, containing the families Notodontidae, Nolidae, Erebidae (Catocalinae, Ophiderinae, Lymantriinae and Arctiinae) and the Noctuidae (sensu stricto), the trifine noctuids. An encyclopedia and identification guide to the western and Central Asiatic fauna with special reference to Iran and Afghanistan. First section bilingual (English/German), introducing Eva Vartian and her lepidopterological activity. The scientific part comprises the annotated list of the type-material, the revised checklist of the Noctuoidea collection (3009 species-level taxa belonging to 673 genera), life-size colour images of all taxa, descriptions of 10 new species and a new subspecies.This volume will serve as a handbook for taxonomic and faunistic studies of western and Central Asia. [9789638801494]

Heterocera Press, 2013. 117, 72 col plates. . HB. NEW. . This second volume in this series includes six smaller superfamilies of Macrolepidoptera: Lasiocampoidea, Bombycoidea, Drepanoidea, Cossoidea, Zygaenoidea and Hepialoidea. The first, bilingual section of the book provides a general overview of the Vartian Collection harboured in the Natural History Museum, Vienna with colour photos giving back the atmosphere of the place, in addition the list of all taxa described from the Vartian Collection since 1995. The scientific part comprises the complete checklist of the taxa of the above-mentioned superfamilies preserved in the collection indicating also the numbers of the specimens in each taxon. 72 colour plates illustrate all “Bombycoid” (sensu lato) taxa in the collection, life-size. Comprises an encyclopaedic overview of and identification guide to the “Bombycoid” fauna of Western and Central Asia. It is recommended to all amateur and professional lepidopterists who are… Read More