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London: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A decent clean and complete copy with college library stamp and blank lending list to fep. The dustwrapper is virtually complete with a little loss to top and tail of spine, also browning and label removal mark to spine.

London: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, 1937. Illustrated, small octavo, pp 220, very clean internally, green cloth, very slightly worn, the spine slightly faded. [From the library of the botanist David McClintock, with his signature on the front endpaper, his bookplate opposite the half-title and several extra ilustrations slipped in.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1949. Cloth. Very Good. 7" by 5". W. F. Evans; C. O. Hammond . A smart second edition of this brightly illustrated study on the dragonflies of the British Isles. Second edition, enlarged. Illustrated with sixteen colour plates, forty-two black-and-white plates, and many in-text figures. Collated complete. A detailed study on the dragonflies of the British Isles, with the life-history of the dragonfly, a key to the identification of species, wings and bodies of dragonflies, methods of collecting, classifications, and more. Written by Cynthia Evelyn Longfield, an Anglo-Irish entomologist and explorer who was the first female member of the Entomological Society. Illustrated by William Frederick Evans and Cyril O. Hammond, both British entomologists and illustrators. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Minor age toning to the… Read More

London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1949. Book. Illus. by Hammond, Cyril. Near Fine. Hardcover. Second Edition - Enlarged. 8vo. pp 255. 12 colour plates within by Cyril Hammond. Green cloth simulated leather binding with black stamped decoration and gilt lettering and gilt vignette, in near fine condition. Dust jacket near fine, front panel features an on lay dragonfly, slightly rubbed, a little los along the top edge and spine, now protected in an archival sleeve. Contents clean and tight, unmarked. A near fine copy in a very good jacket.

London: Warne, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. A very lovely copy in bright green, fresh looking boards. No jacket. Size: 12mo.. Category: Natural History & Resources; .

Warne,, [1949]. 8vo., Second Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, numerous illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers, neat initials of front free endpaper; original series binding of green faux-morocco, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt back, radial corners, a very good, bright, clean copy. An entomological classic, first published in 1937. In this revised edition the original drawings by Dorothy Fitchew are replaced with plates of coloured drawings printed by lithography. Often known simply as 'Cynthia', this was THE dragonfly field guide until Hammond in 1977. Marren, pp.169-169.

London: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, 1949. econd edition, enlarged. Illustrated, small octavo, pp 255, a little foxing to the top edge and to the margins of the half-title and opposing page, minor foxing to the fore-edge, the remains of a single figure price can be seen indented on the front endpaper.green cloth just very slightly marked, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, it is slightly worn and chipped around the edges, the spine is slightly faded and the pictorial inlay on the upper cover is foxed. [This buff dustwrapper appears to be the early one; it is priced at 17/6 .]. Second edition. Cloth. Good/Slightly worn.

Frederick Warne & Co., London and New York. 1949. Second Enlarged edition. Frederick Warne & Co., London. 1949. Small pocket-format hardback with dust-wrapper. 256 pages. Index. Some wear to extremities of dust-wrapper which has two amateur repairs to closed tears with sellotape; inscriptions to pre-lims.

Frederick Warne. London. 1937. First edition.. pp. 220, (iv) Notes. Coloured frontispiece, 37 plates, numerous text figures. Dust wrapper, original cloth, some pencil marginalia, a very good copy.

London : Frederick Warne and Co, 1949-1952. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Very Good Indeed. 7" by 5". None . Two detailed guide book on dragonflies and spiders intended to be used in the field. The first edition of The Spider's Web was published in 1952, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The second enlarged edition of The Dragonflies of the British Isles was published in 1949, in the original clipped dust wrapper. The Dragonflies of the British Isles was written by Cynthia Longfield for use in the field. It aims to provide a detailed but concise guide to British dragonflies. The text is accompanied by detailed colour illustrations. This edition is based on information collected in W. J. Lucas's book Britain Dragonflies published in 1900. The first edition of Dragonflies of the British Isles was published in 1937. The Dragonflies of the British Isles includes fifty-eight plates and detailed vignettes. Collated complete. The Spider's Web was written by Theodore H. Savory to trace the evolution… Read More