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Post by froggy on Sept 22, 2013 11:54:33 GMT -8
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Post by froggy on Sept 22, 2013 11:58:15 GMT -8
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Post by froggy on Sept 22, 2013 12:01:19 GMT -8
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Post by leptraps on Sept 23, 2013 6:47:19 GMT -8
I met William Howe several time in the early 1970's. I provided him with several specimens, including a pair of Speyeria diana. In return he painted a male Speyeria diana and give it to me. It is framed and hangs in my collection room along with several other I have acquired over the years. I was never much of a photographer, better with a net and a light trap. Attachment DeletedAttachment Deleted
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Post by nomad on Sept 23, 2013 9:10:05 GMT -8
linkWilliam Howe was certainly a brilliant illustrator, which can be seen from froggy's and leptraps images. They show what a wealth of butterflies the North American continent is lucky to have. More on the late W. howe and his butterfly art can be found in the link above. Peter.
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Post by froggy on Sept 24, 2013 4:29:47 GMT -8
Thanks Leptraps and Nomad for the additional info on William Howe. I will inquire/look for his works next time I am at the Smithonian in DC.
Cheers, Thierry
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Post by jshuey on Sept 24, 2013 4:56:20 GMT -8
I have to put my plug in for Godman and Salvin's Biologia Centrali-Americana, Lepdoptera-Rhophalocera. Volumes 1-3. This was published as a subscription series between 1879 and 1901. The plates are hand tinted lithographs. I love the book because of the real expertize that went into illustrating species, and genitalia as required. Many species were described as new in the book, and you have the original descriptions and the type specimens figured. I use it all the time as a primary reference for skipper identifications from Central America. After 110 years, it is still a primary reference for me. I mean, who else has detailed genetalic drawings of neotropical butterflies? The down side is that while the book is written in English, the species descriptions and diagnoses are in Latin! I saw one of these for sale when I was in school in the 1980's for over $10,000, so obviously it is out of my price range. But I printed a copy on rag paper using very good equipment a few years ago. I had the three volumes bound in goat leather as my own personal reprint a few years ago! (which also cost too much!) You can download this book (and all the other entomology volumes in the series)from the Smithsonian web site. Shuey Attachments:
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Post by lepidofrance on Sept 24, 2013 12:21:10 GMT -8
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Post by wollastoni on Sept 24, 2013 12:29:33 GMT -8
Those of you who are looking for rare books must have a look at TOPDUCK's listings : www.topduck.frThanks to Michel, I have found many parts of the very rare "Monography of the Delias genus, Talbot".
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Post by dertodesking on Sept 24, 2013 12:32:39 GMT -8
I agree with all of the previous suggestions and would add Yukio Shimogori's excellent "Achillides Butterflies"...full of beautiful pictures of some drop-dead gorgeous butterflies Simon
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Post by lepidofrance on Sept 24, 2013 12:54:07 GMT -8
"Those of you who are looking for rare books must have a look at TOPDUCK's listings : www.topduck.fr" I do agree !! Yukio Shimogori's excellent Achillides Butterflies :
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Post by mygos on Sept 24, 2013 22:14:33 GMT -8
Those of you who are looking for rare books must have a look at TOPDUCK's listings : www.topduck.frThanks to Michel, I have found many parts of the very rare "Monography of the Delias genus, Talbot". Thank you Olivier ! A+, Michel
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2013 1:34:17 GMT -8
I agree with all of the previous suggestions and would add Yukio Shimogori's excellent "Achillides Butterflies"...full of beautiful pictures of some drop-dead gorgeous butterflies Agree with you there Simon, fantastic pictures and distribution maps at the back. May I also add on this theme that if you want a book with decent collecting tips you will have to go pre 1980 before political correctness and the anti collecting brigade found their voice, the best I found for beginners is by w furneaux, fantastic section on all aspects of collection and storage, unfortunately it is quite old now.
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Post by prillbug4 on Sept 25, 2013 5:30:41 GMT -8
I have a library, and several boxes filled with various papers. Also, I have been a member of the Coleopterists Society, Pan Pacific Entomological Society, The Lepidopterists Society, and a now defunct Illinois Academy of Science. Most of my books and papers are on Coleoptera and moths. I have an original copy of The Moths of South Africa Vol. 1 Sematuridae and Geometridae by A.J. T. Janse which was published in 1932. Also, some other rare and hard to find books and monographs on beetles. Too many to list. Jeff Prill
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Post by papalidar on Sept 25, 2013 10:52:41 GMT -8
For me, the best book is the monument "macrolepidoptera of the world" by Adalbert Seitz
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