Light, S. F. and collaborators

Society Islands Insects

Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1935. First edition Pp. 156, numerous text-figures. Quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, (original brown printed wrappers bound in place), lg 8vo. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 113 and Pacific Entomological Survey Publication No. 6. Scarce work on the insect fauna of the Society islands. Contains 31 separate papers by noted authorities in the field. From the private library of Herbert S. Wallace with his name stamp and signature on the front wrapper. Tight and clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 3468

Catalogue: Entomology

Keywords: Entomology insects bugs

Morse, Albert P.

Notes on the Acrididae of New England, II. Tryxalinae + III. Oadipodinae, + IV. Acridiinae.

Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Entomological Club, 1896-1898. First edition. Pp. 46. Quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, 8vo. From: Psyche, Journal of Entomology, volume 7: 323-327, 382-384, 402-403, 407-411, 419-422, 443-445, volume 8: 6-8, 35-37, 50-51, 64-66, 257-260, 269-273, 293-296. This work contains the following parts: Tryxalinae, Parts I, II, IV, V, VI, VII; III; Oadipodinae, Parts I, II, III, IV; Acridiinae, Parts II, III, IV. This volume is inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Name stamps of Irving J. Cantrall on one part and Wm. Beutenmuller two parts as well as on the front endpaper. This work is from the private library of entomologist Herbert S. Wallace. Unusual collection on the Acrididae (the predominate family of grasshoppers) compiled and bound by Herbert Wallace. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 4989

Catalogue: Entomology

Keywords: Entomology insects bugs Acrididae Tryxalinae Oadipodinae Acridiinae grasshoppers locusts Bandwings band-winged grasshoppers New England United States North America Herbert Wallace Morse

Nabours, Robert K.

Studies of Inheritance and Evolution in Orthoptera. V. The Grouse Locust, Apotettix eurycephalus Hancock

Topeka: Kansas State Agricultural College, 1925. First edition Pp. 231, 2 color plates. Quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, (original wrappers bound in place), 8vo. Kansas Agricultural Experiment Technical Bulletin Station, no. 17. Name stamps of T.H. Hubbell and F.W. Walker on the front endpaper. From the private library of Herbert S. Wallace. Very good copy..

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Book number: 3464

Catalogue: Entomology

Keywords: Entomology insects bugs

Packard, Alpheus S.

Guide to the Study of Insects and a Treatise on those Injurious and Beneficial to Crops.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1889, Ninth Edition Pp. xii, 715, 15 plates, 670 woodcuts. Publisher's dark green ribbed cloth with beveled edges, gilt-lettered on the spine with gilt beetle at the base and gilt butterfly on front cover, chocolate brown endpapers, lg 8vo. From the library of George H. Beatty, III with his signature on the title page and name stamp on the endpapers. Slight wear to the head and foot of the spine, otherwise a tight, clean, near fine copy..

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Book number: 2376

Catalogue: Entomology

Keywords: Entomology insects Arthropodology

Pictet, Alphonse and Saussure, Henri de

Iconographie de quelques Sauterelles Vertes.

Genève: Aubert-Schuchardt, 1892. First edition. Pp. 26 (2), 3 fine lithograph plates (colored in green). Quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, lg 4to. Early very small name stamp of Frederick M. Gaige, later from the private library of entomologist Herbert S. Wallace. Light marginal browning and a few small tears to the outer margins of the first two pages; otherwise a very good copy..

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Book number: 3747

Catalogue: Entomology

Keywords: Insects entomology grasshoppers Caelifera Orthoptera

Rehn, J.A. and Hebard, M.

Studies in American Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera), Parts I, II, V and VI

Philadelphia: American Entomological Society, 1914-1915. First edition Pp. 271-344, 4 full page plates; pp. 155-224, 6 full page plates; pp. 225-290, 4 full page plates. Quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, (original wrappers bound in place), 8vo. Four parts (bound separately in three volumes) of this rare monograph: I. A Synopsis of the Species of the Genus Scudderia: II. A Synopsis of the Species of the Genus Amblycorypha found in North America, north of Mexico; V. A Synopsis of the Species of the Genus Conocephalus found in North America, north of Mexico; VI: A Synopsis of the Species of the Genus Conocephalus in North America, south of the southern border of the United States. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volumes 40, 41. Conocephalus is a genus of bush-cricket, known as coneheads; there are numerous species in this genus. Name stamp of 'American Museum of Natural History', and 'uncatalogued' on the front wrapper of Part V and VI, no other marks. From the private library of Herbert S. Wallace. A clean, very good copy..

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Book number: 3463

Catalogue: Entomology

Keywords: Entomology insects bugs

Silvestri, F., and collaborators

Marquesan Insects III

Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1939. First edition Pp. v, 220, numerous text-figures. Quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, (original brown printed wrappers bound in place), lg 8vo. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 124 and Pacific Entomological Survey Publication No. 8. Scarce work on the insect fauna of the Marquesas islands. Contains 25 separate papers by noted authorities in the field. From the private library of Herbert S. Wallace with his name stamp and signature on the front wrapper. Bump to bottom edge prior to the binding of the work, a tight and clean very good copy..

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Book number: 3466

Catalogue: Entomology

Keywords: Entomology insects bugs

Sjostedt, Y.

WISSENSCHAFTLICHE ERGENISSE DER SCHWEDISCHEN ENTOMOLOGISCHEN REISE DES HERRN DR. A. ROMAN IN AMAZONAS 1914-1915, no 1. ODONATA.

Stockholm, 1918. Pp. 54, 2 fine full page plates. Printed wraps, 8vo. Arkiv for Zoologi (Sweden), band 11, no. 15. Near fine..

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Book number: 0409

Catalogue: Entomology

Keywords: Dragonflies Amazon Natural Sciences Natural Science

Smith, Roger S. et al.

Common Insects in Kansas

Topeka: Kansas State Board of Agriculture, 1943. First edition Pp. 440, 464 text-figures and photos, 4 full page color plates. Quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, (original color pictorial printed wrappers bound in place), lg 8vo. Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture 20, no. 945. From the private library of entomologist Herbert S. Wallace with his signature on the front wrapper. Very good copy..

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Book number: 3495

Catalogue: Entomology

Keywords: Entomology insects bugs

Snodgrass, R. E.

Insect Metamorphosis

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1954, first edition. Pp. iii, 124 with 17 text-figures. Publisher's printed brown wrappers, 8vo. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 122, Number 9. From the library of George H. Beatty III with his stamp to front and title page. A bright clean copy in fine condition..

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Book number: 2392

Catalogue: Entomology

Keywords: Entomology insects insect life cyle

Various authors

Collection of 365 offprints on Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, and locusts) and related insect groups from the private library of entomologist Herbert S. Wallace.

Various places, 1871-1959. First edition. Pp. 5000+, numerous line-drawings, photographs, maps and others. Each offprint is separately bound in quarter black cloth over green snake-skin patterned stiff boards, usually with the original printed wrappers bound in place, 8vo or 4to. The offprints date from the 1870s to the 1950s. Each offprint was indexed by Wallace with a typewritten white label attached to the lower left corner of the front board with the author, title, date and journal listed. The original index card collection for these offprints is not available here. Many of these offprints have the name stamp or signature of Herbert Wallace on the front wrapper or title page. Many offprints are inscribed to Wallace by the authors. Other offprints have the name stamp or signature of other notable researchers in the field. Postage will be extra. Very good to near fine condition..

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Book number: 4053

Catalogue: Entomology

Keywords: Entomology orthoptera grasshoppers crickets locusts Herbert S. Wallace

Viereck, H.L. et al.

The Hymenoptera, or Wasp-like Insects, of Connecticut

Hartford: State Geological and Natural History Survey, 1916, first edition Pp. 824, 15 text-figures, 10 plates. Early red pebble cloth, lg 8vo. Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey Volume 5, Bulletin 22, Part 3. Ex-library from the Reading Public Museum with its bookplate on the front endpaper, ink-stamp on the rear endpaper and stamps on the title pages, almost no signs of use; a tight, near fine copy..

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Book number: 2320

Catalogue: Entomology

Keywords: Entomology Hymenoptera sawflies wasps bees ants Connecticut New England United States North America