Category: Signed & Association Books

1. A COMPLETE GUIDE TO BRITISH MOTHS
MARGARET BROOKS, A COMPLETE GUIDE TO BRITISH MOTHS, 1991, 248 pages, colour photos of life-cycles and 26 plates of macro-moths, with slightly scratched dustjacket, very good condition, signed on title page “With best wishes Margaret Brooks”, Jonathan Cape.
Stock No. 469
£50

2. F. W. FROHAWK - HIS LIFE AND WORK
J CHATFIELD, F. W. FROHAWK - HIS LIFE AND WORK, 1987, 184 pages, a finely illustrated book including many reproductions of Frohawk’s paintings and drawings of birds, animals and butterflies, a fascinating insight into the life of a truly exceptional artist whose study and paintings of butterflies and their life-cycles are to this day unsurpassed, a good copy in dustwrapper, signed on title page ”June Chatfield, 9 November 1990”, Crowood Press.
Stock No. 470
£35

3. A REVISED HANDBOOK OF BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA
EDWARD MEYRICK, A REVISED HANDBOOK OF BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA, 1928, 914 pages, with book plate of J M Chalmers-Hunt and signed by him with inscription at front, good clean copy with spine and front cover of original dustjacket pasted onto rear endpapers, Watkins & Doncaster.
Stock No. 473
£40

4. HAWK-MOTHS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND EUROPE
L HUGH NEWMAN,, HAWK-MOTHS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND EUROPE, 1965, 148 pages, beautiful colour and b/w photos of the moths and larvae, descriptive text on all species, dust jacket, excellent copy, number 72 of a limited edition of 250 signed by the author, Cassell.
Stock No. 474
£45

5. TALKING OF BUTTERFLIES, MOTHS AND OTHER FASCINATING INSECTS
L HUGH NEWMAN, TALKING OF BUTTERFLIES, MOTHS AND OTHER FASCINATING INSECTS, 1946, 92 pages, black and white photos, with damaged dustjacket, signed on title page, “L. Hugh Newman 20/9/46”, Littlebury & Co Ltd.
Stock No. 475
£15

6. TRANSFORMATIONS OF BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS
L HUGH NEWMAN,, TRANSFORMATIONS OF BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS, 1952, 256 pages,8 colour plates and photos, a very nice copy with dustjacket, signed by the author on the front endpaper “L Hugh Newman, 21sr Sept.1957”. Ward Lock & Co Ltd.
Stock No. 476
£30

7. THE GENITALIA OF THE BRITISH BUTTERFLIES
F N PEIRCE & B P BEIRNE,, THE GENITALIA OF THE BRITISH BUTTERFLIES, 1941, 66 pages and 21 plates of line drawings, covers patchily faded and wear on spine, annotations by “I R P H(eslop)” and initialled by him “25-12-41”.
Stock No. 477
£40

8. 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”, good copy with dustjacket, inscribed on title page by the author/artist and signed “ADA Russwurm, Brokenhurst, November 1978”, E W Classey.
Stock No. 478
£70

9. THE BUTTERFLIES OF AFRICA
WILLIAMS J G, THE BUTTERFLIES OF AFRICA, 1969, 238 pages, 224 colour plates, useful guide showing over 200 commoner species, inscribed to Paul Smart (owner of the Butterfly Museum at Bramber, Sussex) by the author J G Williams, Collins Field Guide
Stock No. 479
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