Howse Philip E (7 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Used: Good. 1970 paperback name stamp in book/on edge of pages clean text cover shows some wear binding has some damage pages intact 150 pages out of print H-14.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Black cloth with title in gilt on spine and front cover. Condition: As new, signed by author on title page. Dustjacket condition: As new. 241pp. Many colour and b/w illustrations. This book chronicles the life of the Reverend Arthur Miles Moss1873-1948), a little-known genius who explored the Amazon, collecting and breeding butterflies and moths in period from 1903 to 1947 - a period during which little about the Amazon and its natural history became known to the world. Miles Moss went to Peru in 1907 and from 1912 to 1945 was the Anglican Chaplain of the largest parish in the world, one that encompassed the whole of the Amazon basin from Iquitos in Peru to the Atlantic; an area roughly 3,000 miles long and 800 miles wide, amounting to about one quarter of the South American continent. His great passion was Lepidoptera: his major contributions to science were in the form of three classic works on hawk-moths and swallowtail butterflies, all published in the journal of his patron Lord Walter Rothschild who established Tring Museum containing the largest collection of butterflies and moths in the world. Following in the wake of great Victorian naturalists such as Wallace and Bates, Moss' story has been neglected: apart from his publications in scientific journals he left a collection of 25,000 insects, unpublished manuscripts on Amazonian natural history, and some incredibly beautiful water-colours of bizarre-looking caterpillars now archived in the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 4to HB. pp; xxiii, 241. Illustrated throughout. Near-Fine in black cloth, lettered gilt. Ina Near-Fine jacket with light shelf-wear.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 171 page all original HB in as new DW. 19 x 28 cm. 205 color illustrations throughout the text which is arranged in eighteen Chapters. A lovely production by the author. See also our ABE Listing: # 008317 "Seeing Butterflies", also by the same author, and # 008321 "Vicar of the Amazon".