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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
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
By: Blanchan, Neltje
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1927
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2267728
Spine head, spine base and corners very lightly rubbed. 1927 Large Hardcover. xiii, 415 pp. Color plates and many other illustrations photographed directly from nature by Henry Troth and A.R. Dugmore. CONTENTS: Preface; List of Illustrations; Blue to Purple Flowers; Magenta to Pink Flowers; White and Greenish Flowers; Yellow and Orange Flowers; Red and Indefinites; Fragrant Flowers or Leaves; Unpleasantly Scented; Plants and Shrubs Conspicuous in Fruit; Plant Families Re... 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
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 propo... View more info
By: Bristowe, W.S.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The King Penguin Books: 1947
Seller ID: 2260333
Ink name and date on front endpaper, 1 inch closed tear to one text page. 1947 Hard Cover. 33, [1], A guide to spiders, illustrated with 24 color plates. Black-and-white illustrations in text. View more info
By: Brown, F. Martin; Heineman, Bernard
Price: $15.00
Publisher: E.W. Classey Limited: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1525143
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
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Price: $100.00
Publisher: Stanford University Press: 1931
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2260279
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 w... View more info
By: Chamberlin, R.V.; Mulaik, S.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: R.L. Gering:
Seller ID: 2260274
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: Comstock, John Henry; Gertsch, W.J.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Comstock Publishing Company, Inc.: 1948
Seller ID: 2260319
Revised edition. Thumb-indexed by previous owner, Robert L. Gering, who was a Ph.D. in the field of arachnology, and from whose library this volume was acquired. Four pages of pencil notes laid in, minor ink and pencil notes in text. 1948 Hard Cover. xi, 729 pp. 8vo. A guide to the study of spiders, scorpions, and other arachnids, originally published in 1912. This edition, released in 1948, is revised and edited by W.J. Gertsch, Ph.D., associate curator at the Departmen... View more info
By: Crompton, John; Quammen, David
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Nick Lyons Books: 1987
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2261000
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
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
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,... View more info
By: Fabre, J.H.; Miall, Bernard (Translator)
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Penguin Books Limited: 1937
Seller ID: 1535056
Paperback with jacket. Lightly rubbed & toned. 1937 Mass Market Paperback. 245 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (December 22, 1823 - October 11, 1915) was a French entomologist and author... Fabre went on to accomplish many scholarly achievements. He was a popular teacher, physicist, chemist and botanist. However, he is probably best known for his findings in the field of entomology, the study of insects, and is considered by many to be the father of modern... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Smithsonian Institution / The Lord Baltimore Press: 1953
Seller ID: 2260320
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
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
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 m... 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
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 Blastok... View more info
By: Johnson, Kurt; Coates, Steve
Price: $10.00
Publisher: McGraw-Hill: 1999
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2268278
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 lik... View more info
By: Jones, Richard
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Abrams: 2011
Seller ID: 2208636
An exceptional copy. 2011 Hard Cover. The Beekeeper’s Bible is as much an ultimate guide to the practical essentials of beekeeping as it is a beautiful almanac to be read from cover to cover. Part history book, part handbook, and part cookbook, this illustrated tome covers every facet of the ancient hobby of beekeeping, from how to manage hives safely to harvesting one's own honey, and ideas for how to use honey and beeswax. Detailed instructions for making candles, f... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station: 1928
Seller ID: 2260280
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... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Basic Books: 2004
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2267025
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 ... View more info
By: Milne, Lorus; Milne, Margery
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1980
Seller ID: 2206362
Page ridges faintly foxed. 1980 Soft Cover. 989 pp Spiders, bugs, moths, butterflies, beetles, bees, flies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, and many other insects are detailed in more than 700 full-color photographs visually arranged by shape and color. Descriptive text includes measurements, diagnostic details, and information on habitat, range, feeding habits, sounds or songs, flight period, web construction, life cycle, behaviors, folklore, and environmental impact. An ill... View more info
By: Owens, Charles D.; Detroy, Benjamin F.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office: 1965
Seller ID: 2204985
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 EQUIP... View more info
By: Pringle, Laurence; Marstall, Bob
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Orchard Books: 2001
Seller ID: 2206059
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
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Edward Arnold & Co.: 1935
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2260276
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: Schneck, Marcus
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Running Press: 1991
Seller ID: 2205619
Butterfly greeting card laid in. A few small stains to boards, pages bright and clean. 1991 Large Hardcover. A spectacular full-color identification guide to more than 200 North American butterflies, illustrated life-size on an eight-foot foldout chart. View more info
By: Wharton, G.S.; Fuller, H.S.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Entomological Society of Washington: 1952
Seller ID: 2260277
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 adulth... View more info
By: With, C.J.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Bianeo Lunos Bogtrykkeri: 1906
Seller ID: 2260275
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 ba... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York State Department of Agriculture: 1913
Seller ID: 1531662
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
