A truly unique and wonderful collection of over 170 rare and out of print books covering moths, butterflies and dragonflies.
Each book has been scanned in as a faithful reproduction of the original. The disc contains digital scans of all of the books in (Adobe) PDF format which allows each volume to be read individually.
The books will require suitable PDF software to view them, almost certainly you will already have this on your computer or device - if not we recommend Adobe Reader which is available free.
Please note that these will not play on a home CD/DVD player, they contain no video or audio files whatsoever. These are Data DVDs and can only be viewed on a PC/Laptop.
The list of just some of the titles on the DVD is shown below:
The Book of British Butterflies – W J Lucas 1893
The Book of Butterflies, Sphinxes and Moths (2 Volumes) – Capt T Brown 1832
Brief Guide to the Commoner Butterflies of the Northern United States and Canada – S H Scudder 1893
British Butterflies – A M Stewart 1918
British Butterflies: Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species – W S Coleman 1800’s
The American Boys’ Book of Bugs, Butterflies and Beetles – D Beard 1915
Among the Moths and Butterflies – J P Ballard 1908
Moths and Butterflies of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains (2 Volumes) – S F Denton 1900
The Biology of Dragonflies – R J Tillyard 1917
Entomology. British Butterflies – J Duncan 1855
British Butterflies, Moths and Beetles – W F Kirby 1885
British Butterflies and Moths – H T Stainton
British Butterflies and other Insects – E Thomas 1908
British Butterflies and Moths – W Percival Westwell
British Butterflies and their Transformations – H N Humphreys 1841
An Illustrated History of British Butterflies and Moths – E Newman
British Dragonflies – W J Lucas 1900
British and European Butterflies and Moths – A W Kappel
British Libellulinae: or Dragon Flies – W E Evans 1845
The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Butterflies (Volume 2) – Lt Col C T Bingham 1907
Butterflies and Moths at Home – A Forrester 1905
Butterflies and Moths (British) – W Furneaux 1894
The Butterflies and Moths of Teneriffe – A E Holt 1894
The Butterflies of Eastern United States – G H French 1896
The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada with special reference to New England (2 Volumes) – S H Scudder 1889
The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon (2 Volumes) – Maj G F L Marshall 1882
The Butterflies of Montana – M J Elrod 1906
The Butterflies of North America (Volumes 2 & 2) – W H Edwards 1884
Butterflies of the Riviera – F Bromilow 1892
The Butterflies of Switzerland and the Alps of Central Europe – G Wheeler 1903
The Butterflies of the West Coast of the United States – W G Wright 1906
Butterflies their Structure, Changes, and Life Histories with special reference to American Forms – S H Scudder 1881
Butterflies worth knowing – C M Weed 1917
The Butterfly Book: A Popular guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America W J Holland 1904
The Butterfly Hunters – H S Conant 1868
The Butterfly Trees – L Shepardson 1914
European Butterflies and Moths – W F Kirby 1882
Fabre’s Book of Insects – R Stawell
Fossil Butterflies – S H Scudder
The Genera and Species of British Butterflies – H N Humphreys
A Handbook of British Butterflies – J R Charnley 1902
A Handbook of the Dragonflies of North America – J G Needham 1929
A History of British Butterflies – Rev F O Morris 1853
The History of our British Butterflies – C W Dale
An Illustrated Essay on the Noctuidae of North America with ‘A Colony of Butterflies’ – A R Grote 1882
Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies (Volumes 1, 2 & 5) – W C Hewitson 1856
Moths and Butterflies – M C Dickerson 1901
New Zealand Neuroptera – G V Hudson 1904
The Odonata of Dragonflies of South Africa – 1921
A revision of the Amblypodia group of Butterflies of the family Lycaenidae – G T Bethune-Baker
A Catalogue of South African Butterflies: Comprising Description of all known species – R Trinen 1862
Rhopalocera Exotica, being Illustrations of New, Rare, and Unfigured Species of Butterflies (Volumes 1 & 2) – H G Smith & W Kirby 1887
A Description of the Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula – W L Distant 1882
A Description of the Butterflies of Japan – H Pryer
The Butterfly Vivarium or Insect Home – H N Humphreys 1858
Winter Butterflies in Bolinas – M D Barber 1918
The Young Collector’s Handbook of Ants, Bees, Dragonflies, Earwigs, Crickets and Flies – W Harcourt 1890
The Young Naturalist, A Handy Colume upon the Collection, Preservation and Arrangement of Butterflies and Shells – H G Adams 1879
The Zygoptera, or Damsel-Flies of Illinois – P Garman 1917
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum (11 Volumes) – 1898
Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the British Museum (7 Volumes) – 1877
Butterflies and Moths (British) – W Furneaux 1897
Catalogue of the Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera formed by the late W C Hewitson – W F Kirby 1879
Catalogue of the Described Lepidoptera of North America – J G Morris 1860
Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera of the Family Satyride in the Collection of the British Museum – 1868
Catalogue of the Doubleday Collection of Lepidoptera (2 Volumes) – late 1800’s
A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the Hon East India Company (Volume 1) – T Horsfield 1857
Caterpillars and their Moths – I M Elliot 1902
Characters of Undescribed Lepidoptera Heterocera – F Walker 1869
Check list of the South African Lepidoptera Heterocera – A J T Janse 1917
The Fruhstorfer Collection of Butterflies
The Genera of British Moths (Volume 1) – H N Humphreys
The Genitalia of the Group Noctuidae of the Lepiodptera of the British Islands – F N Pierce 1909
A Handbook of British Lepidoptera – E Meyrick 1895
A hand book to the order Lepidoptera (5 Volumes) – W F Kirby 1896
An Illustrated Natural History of British Moths – E Newman 1874
The Moths Book: A Popular Guide to a knowledge of the Moths of North America – W J Holland 1903
The Moths of the British Isles (2 Volumes) – R South
Moths of the Limberloost – G Stratton-Porter 1921
A Natural History of British Moths (3Volumes) – Rev F O Morris 1871
New Checklist of North American Moths – A R Grote 1882
New Zealand Moths and Butterflies – G V Hudson 1908
Revision of the West-Indian Micro-Lepidoptera – Rt Hon Lord Walsingham 1897
Papillo: The Organ of the New Yourk Entomological Club (3Volumes) – H Edwards 1881
Pterophoridae of California and Oregon – Lord Walsingham 1880
The Pterophoridae of North America – C H Fernald 1898
Synonymic List of British Lepidoptera – R South 1884
These are faithfully digitised reproductions of vintage out of print books and are free of copyright restrictions. We make every effort to maintain the original images and text.
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You will receive a Fully Printed DVD supplied in a plastic wallet.
This compilation copyright The Retrospective Place
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