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By: Baker, Edward W.; Wharton, G.W.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1952
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2260332
Condition: Good
Front hinge just starting, minor ink marks in text, pages thumb-indexed by previous owner (Robert L. Gering, a Ph.D. in the field of arachnology, from whose library this volume was acquired). 1952 Hard Cover. xiii, [1], 465 pp. 8vo. A monograph on mites and ticks, written by an entomologist and a zoologist. Color frontispiece, black-and-white illustrations in text. View more info
![Image for Bibliographia Araneorum: Analyse Methodique de Toute la Litterature Araneologique Jusqu-en 1939, Tome I [1]](/assets/images/product/2260318.jpg)
By: Bonnet, Pierre
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Les Freres Douladoure: 1945
Seller ID: 2260318
Condition: Good
Custom bound in blue cloth with previous owner's initials (S.C.B.) on spine base, gilt titles. Pages toned, bookplate, pamphlet, and small note laid in, ink name and date on front endpaper, explaining that Robert L. Gering (a Ph.D. in arachnology, from whose library this work was acquired) purchased this book from the library of the late Sherman C. Bishop. 1945 Hard Cover. xvii, 832 pp. 8vo. A French bibliography of works on the study of spiders, the first of three proposed volumes, though the second volume ended up being released in five parts. This volume includes: Introduction; Liste alphab... View more info
By: Brown, F. Martin; Heineman, Bernard
Price: $15.00
Publisher: E.W. Classey Limited: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1525143
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Includes original jacket. Lightly rubbed. 1972 Large Hardcover. 478 pp. 11 x 8 7/8. Map illustrated endpapers. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Foreword; Prologue; 1. The Jamaican Scene; 2. The Early Collectors; 3. Present-Day Collecting; 4. Butterfly Anatomy and Biology; 5. Chief Butterfly Habitats of Jamaica; 6. Zoogeography; 7. The Butterflies of Jamaica; Abbreviations; Color Plates; Bibliography; Glossary; Check-List; Index to Scientific Names. View more info
![Image for The Arachnid Order Chelonethida (Stanford University Publications University Series, Biological Sciences, Volume VII, Number 1 [Vol. 7, No. I])](/assets/images/product/2260279.jpg)
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Stanford University Press: 1931
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2260279
Condition: Very Good
Inscribed to fellow arachnologist Robert L. Gering (from whose library this volume was acquired) and signed by author on dedication page, signed by author again without inscription on title page. Possible custom rebinding (we have another copy from the same collection in red cloth with gilt titles on the spine - this is plain brown cloth with no title on the exterior). Rear hinge a bit shaken. 1931 Hard Cover. 284 pp. 8vo. A study of pseudoscorpions by an arachnologist who spent much of his career as an expert in this particular field. Black-and-white diagrams throughout. View more info
By: Chamberlin, R.V.; Mulaik, S.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: R.L. Gering:
Seller ID: 2260274
Condition: Good
A bit musty, a few pages in need of reinforcement along binder rings. A three-ring binder containing typed and handwritten notes and class worksheets for a college-level course on arachnids, with thumb tabs dividing the material into the following sections: Microthelyphonida;Pedipalpida; Ricinulei; Solpugida; Chelonethida; Scorpionida; Opiliones; Acarina; Araneida. Acquired from the working library of a Ph.D. in the field. View more info
By: Crompton, John; Quammen, David
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Nick Lyons Books: 1987
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2261000
ISBN: 0941130290
Condition: Very Good
1st printing. Wrappers faintly toned, page ridges lightly foxed. 1987 Trade Paperback. 254 pp. Describes the characteristics and behavior of spiders, looks at different breeds, and discusses their hunting techniques, breeding, natural enemies, courtship and intelligence. View more info
By: Dodge, Natt N.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Southwestern Monuments Association / Sugar Pine Press: 1947
Seller ID: 2260282
Condition: Very Good
Ink name and date on front wrapper, wrappers lightly toned. 1947 Stapled Binding. 44 pp. Pictorial wrappers. A guide to various species living in the desert that are, despite the title, venomous; poisonous would mean they were harmful when bitten, whereas the ones discussed are harmful if they bite. View more info
By: Dyce, E.J.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York State College of Agriculture: 1958
Seller ID: 2204986
Condition: Near Fine
Near fine. 1958 Stapled Binding. 15 pp. CONTENTS: The extent of the beekeeping industry; The honeybee in pollination; Who keeps bees; A skilled occupation; How to acquire a knowledge of beekeeping: Beekeeping literature - Current books - Bulletins and circulars - Service letters - Beekeeping journals - Reports and statistics - The beekeeping library at Cornell University, Cornell Farm study courses in beekeeping; Visual material; Beekeeping organizations: New York State, United States; When to start beekeeping; Buying bees: Where to buy bees and queens, Kinds of bees to purchase; Equipment: Ty... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Smithsonian Institution / The Lord Baltimore Press: 1953
Seller ID: 2260320
Condition: Very Good
Edges lightly rubbed, wrappers lightly toned. Acquired from the author's own library. 1953 Stapled Binding. iii, [1], 84 pp. Printed wrappers. A monograph on spider anatomy and sexual biology, written by a professor at the Department of Biology at Bethel College. Includes black-and-white illustrations. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Smithsonian Institution / The Lord Baltimore Press: 1953
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2260322
Condition: Very Good
Author's personal copy, signed on title page, with errata in his hand on four pages of text (these pages noted inside front wrapper) and some additional notes provided in margins. Edges lightly rubbed, wrappers lightly toned. 1953 Stapled Binding. iii, [1], 84 pp. Printed wrappers. A monograph on spider anatomy and sexual biology, written by a professor at the Department of Biology at Bethel College. Includes black-and-white illustrations. View more info
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By: Hentz, Nicholas Marcellus; Burgess, Edward; Emerton, James H.
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Boston Society of Natural History: 1875
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2260316
Condition: Good
First edition. Rebound in green cloth with gilt titles, original wrappers bound in. Two images of author laid in, one copied from an 1846 daguerreotype, the other a photo taken of a self-portrait painting. Front wrapper stained, ink name and date on front endpaper ('R.P. Gering, Purchased: 10 Dec. 1952': Gering was a Ph.D. in the field of arachnology, and this volume was acquired from his working library). 1875 Hard Cover. xiii, 171 pp. 21 plates follow text. The first major monograph on the subject of American spiders, by the most accomplished entomologist in the country at the time. He was a... View more info
By: Johannsen, Oskar A.; Butt, Ferdinand H.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.: 1941
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2259943
Condition: Very Good
First edition. No jacket, ink stamp to page ridges and front paste-down endpaper. 1941 Hard Cover. xi, 462 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction: Ontogenetic Development--The Cell--Types of Cleavage in Animal Eggs; A Type of Embryonic Development in Insects; The Egg, Fertilization, Maturation, and Cleavage; Early Development: The Blastoderm--Yolk Cells--Secondary Yolk Cleavage--Germ Cells--Germ Band--Segmentation--Appendages; Embryonic Envelopes, Dorsal Organs, and Blastokinesis; Gastrulation, Formation of the Germ Layers, and Development of the Entoderm; The Alimentary Canal; Ectodermal Derivat... View more info
By: Johnson, Kurt; Coates, Steve
Price: $10.00
Publisher: McGraw-Hill: 1999
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2268278
ISBN: 0071373306
Condition: Near Fine
First printing. A very nice copy. 1999 Trade Paperback. xii, 372 pp. “This insidiously charming book teaches readers about the place of lepidoptery in the life sciences and the kinds of questions that natural scientists seek to answer....Like Nabokov himself, this volume exemplifies some of the virtues shared by art and science: wit, intelligence, and, above all, meticulousness.”-—The New Yorker. “Charming...In a world that often separates science and culture like church and state, this book reminds us that, for Nabokov, butterflies helped shape ‘a habitual way of looking at the worl... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station: 1928
Seller ID: 2260280
Condition: Good
Front hinge just beginning to loosen, ink name stamp and date on front endpaper. 1928 Hard Cover. 1121 pp. 8vo. A list of insect, arachnid, and related species found in New York State, organized by class, with a list of the orders, number of families, genera, and species recorded, a list of important collecting stations, a list of cooperators and authorities, and an index of orders, families, and genera. Large fold-out map of New York State showing locations of important insect discoveries included in rear pocket. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Basic Books: 2004
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2267025
ISBN: 0738208949
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket edges very lightly bumped. Light highlighting throughout text. 2004 Hard Cover. xxiii, 294 pp. In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust “the single greatest impediment to the settlement of the country between Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains.” Throughout the nineteenth century, swarms of locusts regularly swept across the American continent, turning noon into dusk, devastating farm communities, and bringing trains to a halt. The outbreaks subsided in the 1890s, and then, suddenly—and mysteriously—the Rocky Mountain locust vanished. A century later, entomologist Jeffrey ... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1897
Seller ID: 2288806
Condition: Near Fine
Ink name and date on front endpaper. 1897 Hard Cover. xiv, 269 pp. Gilt titles on spine and front board. CONTENTS: Early Wild Flowers, Catkins, an Spring Peppers; Early Flowering Shrubs; Shrubs Belonging to the Rose Family--Cherries, Brambles, Etc.; Shrubs Belonging to the Rose Family--The Wild Rose, Etc.; The Woodland Road--Shrubs and Flowers Belonging to the Heath Family; Meadow Singers; The Little Songsters--The Yellowbird, Sparrows, and Phoebe Bird; Birds with Unmusical Voices; Birds of Brilliant Feathers--Humming Bird, Jay, Bluebird, Tanager, Oriole, Etc.; Woodland Singers--The Thrushes, ... View more info
By: Moffett, Mark W.
Price: $12.00
Publisher: University of California Press: 2010
Edition: 4th Printing
Seller ID: 2273636
ISBN: 0520261992
Condition: Very Good
4th printing. Light edge wear to jacket. 2010 Hard Cover. Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, the Indiana Jones of entomology, takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere, Moffett recounts his entomological exploits and provides fascinating details on how ants live and how they dominate their ecosystems through strikingly human behaviors, yet at a different scale and a faster tempo. Moffett's spectacular close-up pho... View more info
By: Morse, Roger A.
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Comstock Publishing Associates: 1980
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2282739
ISBN: 0801409756
Condition: Near Fine
Second printing. Quarter inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, jacket very faintly foxed. Ink name on half-title page. 1980 Hard Cover. 430 pp. ...the book describes the most advanced methods of disease detection and treatment, as well as recommendations as to exact dosages and procedures that will make the most effective use of modern drugs. The first five chapters cover viruses and rickettsiae, bacteria, protozoa, fungi, and nematodes. Articles on insects treat moths, flies, ants, wasps, bees, and others. Spiders and pseudoscorpions, mites and ticks, frogs and toads, birds, marsupi... View more info
By: Mound, Laurence
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1990
Seller ID: 2278882
ISBN: 0679804412
Condition: Good
Light foxing to page ridge. 1990 Large Hardcover. 63 pp. Full-color photos. Sure to attract browsers and students researching assignments, Insect explores the anatomy, behavior, and ecology of those creatures, with a heavy emphasis on popular species. Each double-page spread consists of concise, yet lively and readable text and numerous. excellent-quality captioned photos, drawings, and diagrams. An attractive addition to the nonfiction shelves.--School Library Journal. View more info
By: Owens, Charles D.; Detroy, Benjamin F.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office: 1965
Seller ID: 2204985
Condition: Near Fine
Near fine. 1965 Stapled Binding. 23 pp. CONTENTS: Equipment for the honey house: handling supers, uncapping, extracting, sump and pump, cleaning, heating and cooling, recovering honey from cappings, storage and shipment; Planning the honey house: floor plan, space for supers, truck area, hot room, heat source, other features; Equipment for the apiary: moving the hives and supers, moving colonies.KEYWORDS: CHARLES OWENS BENJAMIN DETROY SELECTING OPERATING BEEKEEPING EQUIPMENT US UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT AGRICULTURE FARMERS BULLETIN 2204 APIARY APICULTURE HOBBIES ANIMALS REFERENCE View more info
By: Pringle, Laurence; Marstall, Bob
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Orchard Books: 2001
Seller ID: 2206059
Condition: Good
Sticker to front paste-down endpaper, pocket and ink note to rear paste-down endpaper.Ink mark to jacket front and rear jacket flap. 2001 Hard Cover. 64 pp. A beautifully illustrated story of the life cycle of the Green Darner Dragonfly from American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Lifetime Achievement winner Laurence Pringle.KEYWORDS: LAURENCE PRINGLE BOB MARSTALL DRAGON IN SKY GREEN DARNER DRAGONFLY CHILDREN PICTURE BOOKS ANIMALS INSECTS View more info
By: Ries, Heinrich; Felt, Ephraim Porter
Price: $75.00
Publisher: University of the State of New York: 1902
Seller ID: 2289087
Condition: Very Good
Front hinge starting. 1902 Hard Cover. Includes map in front pocket. Museum bulletins 35-36. Clays of New York: Their Properties and Uses, by Heinrich Ries. 16th Report of the State Entomologist Injurious and Other Insects of the State of New York, by Ephraim Porter Felt. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Edward Arnold & Co.: 1935
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2260276
Condition: Good
First edition. Spine faded, underlining and notes to first 40 pages only, arachnology symposium pamphlet laid in, ink name of former owner stamped on front endpapers (Robert L. Gering, an arachnologist, from whose library this volume was acquired). 1935 Hard Cover. xi, 218 pp. A scientific study in arachnology, including information on spiders, scorpions, etc., as well as extinct arachnids such as trilobites. Black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout. View more info
By: Stawell, Mrs.Rodolph; De Mattos, Alexander Teixeira; [Fabre, Jean-Henri]
Price: $200.00
Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company: 1921
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2285684
Condition: Near Fine
First thus. Light scuff on spine, otherwise an excellent copy. 1921 Hard Cover. viii, [ii], 271, [5] pp. 4to. Original green cloth, gilt titles & decorations, green top page ridge. Color frontispiece of the sacred beetle, tipped in color plates by E.J. Detmold throughout. Compiled from a series of writings Fabre released from 1891-1909. Fabre was an influence on Charles Darwin, who called him an 'inimitable observer', and helped shape the science of modern entomology. View more info
By: von Frisch, Karl
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Cornell University Press: 1964
Seller ID: 2277107
Condition: Good
Sticker adhesive on front wrapper, front wrapper bumped, a few light spots to top page ridge, ink stamp on title page. 1964 Trade Paperback. x, 118 pp. Through 40 years of brilliant, patient, scientific detective work, world-renowned biologist Karl von Frisch learned how the world looks, smells, and tastes to a bee: more remarkable still, he demonstrated that bees can and do communicate to one another information of considerable complexity. This lucid report of his findings, which were at first considered almost unbelievable in their implications, has become a classic in biological study, open... View more info
By: Wharton, G.S.; Fuller, H.S.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Entomological Society of Washington: 1952
Seller ID: 2260277
Condition: Very Good
Ink name and date on front endpaper (R.L. Gering, an arachnologist, from whose library this volume was acquired), boards lightly soiled. 1952 Hard Cover. 185 pp. 8vo. A study of tiny harvest mites commonly referred to as chiggers, which are members of the arachnida class, and known for causing itchy rashes with their bites (referred to in the scientific world as trombiculosis). Chiggers feed on animal cells during their larval phase, but are harmless herbivores in adulthood. View more info
By: With, C.J.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Bianeo Lunos Bogtrykkeri: 1906
Seller ID: 2260275
Condition: Very Good
Custom binding, arachnologist Joseph Conrad Chamberlin's personal copy, with his pencil notes in text, additional leaves bound in with his notes in ink, and more blank leaves bound in for future notes. Chamberlin studied at Stanford and worked for most of his career at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Pseudoscorpions, the subject of this book, were his area of specialty, and 20 taxa are named after him. 1906 Hard Cover. 340 pp. A scientific study of pseudoscorpions based on data gathered during the Danish Galathea and the Danish Siam Expedition by entomologists Kjellerup and Mortensen. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York State Department of Agriculture: 1913
Seller ID: 1531662
Condition: Very Good
Wrappers rubbed, pencil marks on front wrapper. 1913 Trade Paperback. 152 pp. Numerous illustrations & photographs. 1913 NYS Department of Agriculture beekeeping bulletin. A comprehensive & in-depth study of the subject. View more info
