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American EntomologyPreserve for the Future - $1,600 Thomas Say (1787-1834) was a self-taught naturalist who has come to be considered the Father of American Entomology. In 1812 he became one of the founding/charter members of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia and actually lived at the Academy and tended its small museum...Read More |
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Ants, Bees, and WaspsPreserve for the Future - $750 This volume contains the author’s record of various experiments with ants, bees, and wasps at the turn of the 20th century. Lubbock wrote that his "object has been not so much to describe the usual habits of these insects as to test their mental condition and powers of sense." Beautifully...Read More |
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Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Homoptera.Preserve for the Future - $1,300 The Biologia Centrali-Americana is an important literary resource of Central American biodiversity. Issued between 1879 to 1915 in 215 parts, the series resulted from scientific surveys and explorations during the turn of the 20th century. The BCA is a scarce resource in Latin America research...Read More |
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Histoire Naturelle des Lepidoptères ExotiquesBuild and Access the Collection - $2,500 Pierre Hippolyte Lucas (1815?-1899) began his career in science at 13 as an apprentice preparator in the zoological laboratory of the Muséum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He became a respected expert on several orders of invertebrates and wrote up the specimens of several important...Read More |
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Papillons d'EuropeBuild and Access the Collection - $4,250 Ernst & Engramelle's work on the butterflies of Europe was originally issued by subscription in 29 fascicles over 13 years. The Cullman Library holds the complete work: eight volumes of text (bound as three) with 342 meticulously and beautifully hand-colored plates in three separate volumes (...Read More |
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Psyche : Figures of Non-Descript Lepidopterous Insects, or Rare Moths and Butterflies From Different Parts of the WorldBuild and Access the Collection - $1,350 Best known as a botanist and conchologist, Thomas Martyn (1735-1825) also published works on entomology. His Psyche is a famous and famously rare work, once thought to exist in only 10 copies, and while that number has been expanded to about 18, they are all different in the number of plates...Read More |
