Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 3rd Edition. Small 4to, i-xiv, 576 pp, coloured frontispiece, 29 colour plates, 6 black and white plates, 146 figures, 438 figures of genitalia. An excellent copy in dust wrapper, the first edition was published in 1934.
Published by Kuala Lumpur: Printed by Kyle, Plamer & Co. Ltd, 1934
Seller: Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB., Cromford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. One colour plate and 14 in black and white. Page with two maps. A very good copy.
Published by Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1956
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition, Revised. HEAVY. xi, 537pp + 55 plates (8 col), index, appendix, bibliography. Or green cloth in jacket. Tape stains to endpapers, creased front free endpaper/half-title and frontis, page edges evenly toned. Jacket price clipped. Revision of the original 1934 work. Size: Small 4to.
Published by Oliver and Boyd, 1956
Seller: Archives Books inc., Edmond, OK, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Second edition. No marking on text seen. Address st amp on flyleaf. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Friday.
Published by Malayan Nature Society, 1978
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd revised edition . Very Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. 3rd Revised Edition by Lt. Col. J.N. Eliot. Publication of 578 pages and 35 plates. Frontispiece in color. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, minor creases and small tears along the edges, mainly on the back cover. The boards are in good condition. Internally in very good condition, the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by Oliver and Boyd, 1956
Seller: J. HOOD, BOOKSELLERS, ABAA/ILAB, Baldwin City, KS, U.S.A.
Hardcover. 537pp plus 55 plates. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Very good plus condition with text clean & binding sound in a very good but sticker scared dust jacket now in a clear protective mylar sleeve.
Published by Oliver & Boyd, 1956
Seller: Sapsucker Books, Grafton, VT, U.S.A.
Cloth; 537p., 55 plates; 2nd ed. Good + with dj; lt. foxing to pg. edges, internally clean.
Published by Oliver and Boyd, Tweeddale Court, Edinburgh / 39A Welbeck St. London, 1956
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Since the First Edition was published in 1934 up to 1947 Dr Corbet made an exhaustive study of almost all the Important Collections of Malayan Butterflies, ranging from those made by J. G. Koenig ( a pupil of Linnaeus in 1779 ) to those made in Prison camps and behind enemy lines during the Japanese Occupation. No Butterfly known to occur in Malaya has been omitted and a great many are Illustrated for the first time. Keys are given for the Identification of all the species. 55 B&W and Colour Plates at the back, also many In-Text Line Drawings. Green cloth cover with bright Gilt Butterfly on front corner ands bright Gilt lettering and Butterfly on spine. Top page edges Green. Main Text 537 pages + the Plates. 10" Tall, 1.5 kilos. A few little spots of light browning on title and half-title pages. Fine specks of browning on fore page edges. Jacket has edge wear and wear along sides of spine, Several very small edge tears and a triangular piece (about 1" tall) missing from bottom corner of spine. Unclipped, original price 5, 5s. Book weighs over 1.5 kilos packed so Shipping Outside UK will be extra.
Published by Printed by Kyle, Palmer and Co., Ltd.,, Kuala Lumpur, 1934
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. 9.5 x 6.75 inches. [4] + v + [i] + 252 pp. + 14 plates, each with 2 pp. letterpress of titles and captions + vi-xxiv pp. index + [1] + [3] pp. advertisements. Bound in original grey cloth with black titles. Some wear and a little staining to extremities, but otherwise a very good copy. Pictorial bookplate and 1934 inscription (on first free endpaper). Illustrated by one colour plate and 14 black and white plates and by 34 text figures. The first edition of the standard work on the butterflies of the Malay Peninsula, frequently revised and updated later. By the entomologists, Alexander Steven Corbet (1896-1948), former Soil Bacteriologist at the Rubber Research Institute, Malaya, and from 1939 at the British Museum (Natural History), London and Henry Maurice Pendlebury (1893-1945), Curator of the Selangor Museum, Kuala Lumpur, who did not long survive his experiences as a P.O.W in Singapore. NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE MALAYA NATURAL HISTORY INSECTS ASIA 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE.
Seller: Antiquarianbooksellers GEMILANG, Bredevoort, Netherlands
2nd edn. revised by A. Steven Corbet & ed. by N.D. Riley. Edinburgh-London, 1956. Thick 8°, cloth, pict. col. dj., (xi), 537pp. Col. front., col. ills. on 7 plates, 321 plain ills. on 21 plates, ills. on 15 photo-plates, all o.o.t., with extensive captions, bibliography, indexes, appendix. A good copy of an important work. (minor scuffing of rims of dj.).
Published by Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, (1956, 1956
Seller: Andrew Isles Natural History Books, Prahran, VIC, Australia
second edition).Octavo,537 pp.,colour plates, text illustrations, very good copy in slightly dustwrapper.
Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 578 pages + 35 pages Size: 25.5cm B5 size hardcover.
Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 578 pages + 35 pages Size: 25.5cm B5 size hardcover.
Published by Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur, 1978
Seller: Osterley Bookshop, Isleworth, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. Third Edition. VG (two corners lightly bumped) in VG d/w. Green cloth boards. 7.5"x10". 578pp (inc bibliography) plus 33 plates, showing approx 18 specimins each plate (29 in full colour) and numerous line illustrations. Exhaustive study: "no butterfly known to occur in the Malaysian peninsular and Singapore has been omitted from consideration". Third edition revised by Lt. Col. J N Eliot.
Seller: Librairie Chat, Beijing, China
Condition: Fine. Volume: 1.
Published by Published by Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Third Revised Edition . 1978., 1978
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Third revised edition hard back binding in publisher's original forest green paper covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 4to. 10'' x 8''. Contains (xiv), 578 pp with 35 plates, showing approximately 18 specimens each plate (29 in full colour) and numerous line illustrations throughout. This volume was purchased from a professional entomologist who displayed his specimens in cases preserved with ethanol isopropanol, consequently it does carry a feint whiff of this chemical as his library was also stored in the laboratory. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with sun fading around the spine. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Heavy volume weighing 2 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside of the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENTOMOLOGY.
Published by Kuala Lumpur, Malayan Nature Society, 1992
ISBN 10: 9839681052 ISBN 13: 9789839681055
Seller: Antiquariat an der Nikolaikirche, Leipzig, Germany
Condition: Gut. Fourth Edition revised. Mit vielen Zeichnungen und meist farbigen Abbildungen auf 69 Tafeln., 595 Seiten + Tafeln., Das Papier ist leicht gilb, sonst gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 2200 4°. goldgeprägte grüne OPappe mit Schutzumschlag (dieser mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren).,