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An Introduction to Acarology

By: Baker, Edward W.; Wharton, G.W.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1952

Seller ID: 2260332

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Bibliographia Araneorum: Analyse Methodique de Toute la Litterature Araneologique Jusqu-en 1939, Tome I [1]

By: Bonnet, Pierre

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Les Freres Douladoure: 1945

Seller ID: 2260318

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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Jamaica and Its Butterflies

By: Brown, F. Martin; Heineman, Bernard

Price: $15.00

Publisher: E.W. Classey Limited: 1972

Seller ID: 2291035

ISBN: 0900848448

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Boards edges slightly faded, otherwise an exceptional copy. 1972 Large Hardcover. 478 pp. 11 x 8 7/8. Color frontispiece, 10 color plates, 7 figures (6 depicting wing areas and venation, 1 of Libytheana carinenta ternea), 4 maps in text, 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 Sc...
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The Arachnid Order Chelonethida (Stanford University Publications University Series, Biological Sciences, Volume VII, Number 1 [Vol. 7, No. I])

By: Chamberlin, Joseph Conrad

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Stanford University Press: 1931

Seller ID: 2260279

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Laboratory Notes for Zoology 225: Arachnology

By: Chamberlin, R.V.; Mulaik, S.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: R.L. Gering:

Seller ID: 2260274

Binding: Spiral-Bound Hardcover

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.
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Ways of the Six-Footed (Paths to Knowledge)

By: Comstock, Anna Botsford

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Ginn & Company: 1903

Seller ID: 2302637

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ink number on spine, spine lightly rubbed, ink name on front free endpaper. 1903 Hard Cover. xii, 152 pp. An unusual work using the habits of insects as a springboard for discussing social issues. The stories in this volume were written with the definite purpose of illustrating the great primal truth that wherever there is life there are problems confronting it; and that the way of solving these problems has been the way to success in the evolution of a species.
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Structure and Function of the Genitalia in Some American Agelenid Spiders (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 121, Number 4)

By: Gering, Robert L.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Smithsonian Institution / The Lord Baltimore Press: 1953

Seller ID: 2260320

Binding: Stapled Binding

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.
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Structure and Function of the Genitalia in Some American Agelenid Spiders (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 121, Number 4)

By: Gering, Robert L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Smithsonian Institution / The Lord Baltimore Press: 1953

Seller ID: 2260322

Binding: Stapled Binding

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.
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Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius

By: Johnson, Kurt; Coates, Steve

Price: $10.00

Publisher: McGraw-Hill: 1999

Seller ID: 2268278

ISBN: 0071373306

Binding: Trade Paperback

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...
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A List of the Insects of New York, with a List of the Spiders and Certain Other Allied Groups (Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station Memoir 101, August, 1926)

By: Leonard, Mortimer Leonard

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station: 1928

Seller ID: 2260280

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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The Life of the Bee

By: Maeterlinck, Maurice; Sutro, Alfred

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company: 1904

Seller ID: 2303160

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1904 printing. Front hinge just beginning to loosen, a bit musty. 427 pp. 8vo. Green cloth with blind-stamped floral design, gilt titles, top edge gilt. In an exuberantly poetic work that is less about bees and more about life, Maurice Maeterlinck expresses his philosophy of the human condition. The renowned Belgian poet and dramatist offers brilliant proof in this, his most popular work, that no living creature, not even man, has achieved in the center of his sphere, what the bee has achieved. From their amazingly intricate feats of architecture to their intrinsic sense of self-sacrifice, Mae...
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Image for The Illustrated Stock Doctor and Live-Stock Encyclopedia, Including Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine and Poultry, with All the Facts Concerning the Various Breeds and Their Characteristics, Breaking, Training, Sheltering, Buying, Selling, Profitable Use, and General Care, and All Diseases to Which They Are Subject--the Causes, How to Know, and What to Do; Given in Plain, Simple Lanuage, Free from Technicalities, but Scientifically Correct, and with Directions That Are Easily Understood, Easily Applied, and Remedies That Are Within Reach of the People. Also, the Recent, Approved, Humane Methods for the Preservation and Care of Stock, the Prevention of Any Disease, and Restoration of Health. To Which Has Been Added a Complete History of Bees, Giving the Latest and Most Approved Methods and System of Bee Culture as Perfected and Practiced by D. A. Jones, the Renowned Bee-King of Breton, Ontario. Also a Valuable Treatise on Dogs, Containing Their History, Breeds, Training, Diseases, and Especially Giving a Sure Preventive of Hydrophobia.

The Illustrated Stock Doctor and Live-Stock Encyclopedia, Including Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine and Poultry, with All the Facts Concerning the Various Breeds and Their Characteristics, Breaking, Training, Sheltering, Buying, Selling, Profitable Use, and General Care, and All Diseases to Which They Are Subject--the Causes, How to Know, and What to Do; Given in Plain, Simple Lanuage, Free from Technicalities, but Scientifically Correct, and with Directions That Are Easily Understood, Easily Applied, and Remedies That Are Within Reach of the People. Also, the Recent, Approved, Humane Methods for the Preservation and Care of Stock, the Prevention of Any Disease, and Restoration of Health. To Which Has Been Added a Complete History of Bees, Giving the Latest and Most Approved Methods and System of Bee Culture as Perfected and Practiced by D. A. Jones, the Renowned Bee-King of Breton, Ontario. Also a Valuable Treatise on Dogs, Containing Their History, Breeds, Training, Diseases, and Especially Giving a Sure Preventive of Hydrophobia.

By: Manning, J. Russell

Price: $125.00

Publisher: World Publishing Co.: 1882

Seller ID: 2301168

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Front joint starting, board edges lightly rubbed faint stain. Portion of shorthort cattle plate clipped out, lacks one fold-out. 1882 Hard Cover. 1082 pp. Over 400 illustrations, including steels, chromos and wood cuts. Color plates. Large fold-out.
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Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions

By: Moffett, Mark W.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: University of California Press: 2010

Seller ID: 2273636

ISBN: 0520261992

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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Honey Bee Pests, Predators, and Diseases

By: Morse, Roger A.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Comstock Publishing Associates: 1980

Seller ID: 2282739

ISBN: 0801409756

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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Selecting and Operating Beekeeping Equipment (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin No. 2204)

By: Owens, Charles D.; Detroy, Benjamin F.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office: 1965

Seller ID: 2204985

Binding: Stapled Binding

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.
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Clays of New York: Their Properties and Uses (Bulletin of the New York State Museum, No. 35, Vol. 7, June 1900, and No. 36, Vol. 7, March 1901)

By: Ries, Heinrich; Felt, Ephraim Porter

Price: $75.00

Publisher: University of the State of New York: 1902

Seller ID: 2289087

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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The Arachnida

By: Savory, Theodore H.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Edward Arnold & Co.: 1935

Seller ID: 2260276

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Fabre's Book of Insects: Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' Translation of Fabre's 'Souvenirs Entomologiques'

By: Stawell, Mrs.Rodolph; De Mattos, Alexander Teixeira; [Fabre, Jean-Henri]

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company: 1921

Seller ID: 2285684

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Ant Ventures

By: Wade, Blanche Elizabeth

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Rand McNally & Company: 1924

Seller ID: 2303184

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. frontispiece loose but included, includes two of three color plates in text (three of the total four). 1924 Hard Cover. 246 pp. Green boards. Pictures by Harrison Cady. A book for children about an ant and his adventures.
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The Danish Expedition to Siam 1899-1900, III. Chelonethi: An Account of the Indian False-Scorpions together with Studies on the Anatomy and Classification of the Order

By: With, C.J.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Bianeo Lunos Bogtrykkeri: 1906

Seller ID: 2260275

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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