Category: Monographs & Variation

1. A MONOGRAPH OF THE BRITISH ABERRATIONS OF THE CHALKHILL BLUE BUTTERFLY
P M BRIGHT & H A LEEDS,, A MONOGRAPH OF THE BRITISH ABERRATIONS OF THE CHALKHILL BLUE BUTTERFLY, 1939, 141 pages, plate keys, 4 colour and 14 monotone plates, supplement 4pp and errata (Photostat), original cloth binding, an excellent clean copy, pages untrimmed, Richmond Hill Printing Works, Bournemouth.
Stock No. 392
£90

2. VARIETIES OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES
F W FROHAWK, VARIETIES OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES, 1938, reprint 1946, 199 pages including 48 colour plates, (illustrations include specimens of aberrations, gynandromorphs, albinism and melanism), good copy, Frohawk’s final book. The plates of the first printing were lost during the Second World War and a reprint issued later. Very few copies of the first edition exist. Ward Lock & Co.
Stock No. 394
£85

3. VARIATION IN BRITISH BUTTERFLIES
A S HARMER, VARIATION IN BRITISH BUTTERFLIES, illustrated by A D A Russwurm, 1999, 84 colour plates with over 400 life-size specimens featuring nearly every aspect of variation with data, many text drawings, diagrams and also colour photos, 294 pages, The underlying hereditary principles behind many aberrations are explained in chapters on genetics and many illustrated for the first time. This book is a natural sequence to A D A Russwurm’s Aberrations of British Butterflies and will be of great interest to entomologists and naturalists alike. Paphia Publications. New.
Stock No. 395
£55

4. NOTES AND VIEWS OF THE PURPLE EMPEROR
I R P HESLOP, G E HYDE & R E STOCKLEY, NOTES AND VIEWS OF THE PURPLE EMPEROR, 1964, xiii-248 pages, 22 colour and monotone plates, a classic work which assembles a comprehensive selection of expert papers featuring one of Britain’s most magnificent butterflies, dustjacket, Southern Publishing Co. Ltd.
Stock No. 396
£45

5. ABERRATIONS OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES
A D A RUSSWURM,, ABERRATIONS OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES, 1978, 151pp, 48 colour plates, extreme examples of albinism, dimorphism, gynandromorphism, teratologica, homoeosis and other aberrations, this book in the natural successor to F W Frohawk’s earlier work “Varieties”, dustjacket, E W Classey Ltd.
Stock No. 397
£35