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C. Arden, Bookseller Darren Bloodworth The Nursery, Forest Road, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DT, U.K. Tel: +44 (0) 1497-820471 Email: [email protected] Web: www.ardenbooks.co.uk Catalogue No. 119 Arachnology – Collection of Dr Eric Duffey OBE – Part 1 1 - 56 Beetles 57 - 114 Botany 115 - 247 Charles Darwin & Alfred Russel Wallace 248 - 280 Entomology 281 - 344 Fine, Illustrated & Antiquarian 345 - 381 Gardening 382 - 444 Natural History & Zoology 445 - 515 New Naturalist - Main series 516 - 536 New Naturalist – Monographs 537 - 543 Ornithology 544 - 658 Special Offers and New Books – all subject areas 659 - 684 Dear All, We hope 2019 has been a fruitful year and we have great pleasure in sending this catalogue to you. The vast majority of the books offered for sale are new acquisitions, so we hope there’s something of interest for you. Earlier this year, we were fortunate to purchase the arachnological collection of the late Dr. Eric Duffey OBE. His work with spiders & conservation was pioneering and Dr. Duffey went on to be the President of the British Arachnological Society from 1969 to 1973. The books offered for sale in this catalogue represent Part 1 of his collection, with Part 2 to follow next year. Books can be ordered by telephone, email and letter. Also, many of the books in this catalogue can be viewed and purchased on-line at www.ardenbooks.co.uk. Our Bookroom is open for calls and visits Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.00pm & Saturday 9.30am to noon. Answerphone outside of these hours. With our thanks and best wishes, Darren ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We accept debit and credit cards, bank transfers and PayPal. We do not accept American Express. All postage on books is charged additionally at very reasonable rates – please ask for more information. Abbreviations Vg very good t.e.g. top edges gilt pp pages Dw dust wrapper illus. illustrations f.e.p. front end paper o/w otherwise nd no date a.e.g all edges gilt b/w black & white sl slightly pbk paperback (Nov.2019) Arachnology - The Collection of Dr Eric Duffey OBE – Part 1 1. Ash, E.C. British Spiders: Their Lives, Loves, and Tragedies. 1st. Ed. Pub. Robert Holden. [c.1920] pp.144 with detailed b/w. illus. 16mo. A thor. vg. hardback. [56581] £16.00 Nature Lovers Library, Volume 19. 2. Barth, F.G. A Spider’s World. Senses and Behavior. 1st. Eng. Ed. Pub. Springer. 2001 pp.xiv, 394 with 309 figures including 16 colour plates. Large 8vo. Eric Duffey’s address label. Fine hardback. [56592] £125.00 Over 400 million years, spiders have developed their sensory organs to a fascinating technical perfection and complexity. In his intriguing book, Professor Friedrich G. Barth puts this technical perfection into the context of "biology", in which the interaction between environment and sensory organs and the selectivity of the senses as a link between environment and behavior play a major role. 3. Berland, Lucien. Les Arachnides (Scorpions, Araignees, etc.) Biologie Systematique. 1st. Ed. Pub. Paul Lechevalier & Fils. 1932 pp.485 with line drawings throughout. 8vo. Hardback. French with Latin names. Contents fine. Eric Duffey’s signature (1952). Bound in green cloth boards, fine condition. [56580] £20.00 4. Bonnet, Pierre. Bibliographia Araneorum. Analyse Methodique De Toute La Litterature Araneologique Jusqu’en 1939. Tome 1-3. 1st. Ed. Pub. Imprimerie Douladoure. 1945-1961 Three volume set bound in seven with 28 b/w. plates. 8vo. Hardbacks. Eric Duffey’s small address label. Contents fine. An uncut set. Bound (for Eric Duffey) in green cloth boards with gilt titles to spines, all in fine condition. A superb, complete, set of this very important and highly prized work. [56579] £950.00 Comes with three original publisher’s flyers providing updates on how the work was progressing. Also loosely inserted, a copy of Pierre Bonnet’s ‘En marge de Bibliographia Araneorum’ (1961) in which he presents five poems from his ‘De la Nomenclature en Sciences naturelles’. 5. Braendegard, J. Edderkopper. Eller Spindlere I. Danmarks Fauna 72. 1st Ed. Pub. G.E.C. Gads Forlag. 1966 pp.224 with 186 detailed line-drawings. Small 8vo. Danish with Latin names. Eric Duffey’s signature. A nr. fine hardback. [56605] £75.00 6. Brignoli, P.M. A Catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. 1st. Ed. Pub. Manchester Uni. Press. 1983 pp.xi, 755. 8vo. Eric Duffey’s address label and bookplate. A fine hardback. [56600] £150.00 Important and indispensable standard work, it contains a bibliography of the taxonomically relevant literature which appeared during the reporting period, as well as a list of all newly described species. 7. Bristowe, W.S. A Book of Spiders. 1st. Ed. Pub. King Penquin. 1947 pp.33 with 24 colour plates and b/w. illus. Small 8vo. Signature of Eric Duffey. A thor. vg. hardback. [56582] £9.00 8. Bristowe, W.S. The Comity of Spiders. 1st. Ed. Pub. Ray Society. 1939-41 Two volume set with 22 b/w., plates and line drawings. 8vo. Hardbacks. Eric Duffey’s signature and bookplate. Contents fine. Original decorated cloth boards, spines gently sunned, spine of Vol. 1 showing a little wear, o/w. in thor. vg. condition. [56586] £225.00 9. Canard, Alain. Catalogue of Spider Species from Europe and the Mediterranean basin. Parts I & II. Revue Arachnologique. Tome 15, fascicule 3. 1st. Ed. Pub. J-C. Ledoux. 2005 pp.255. 4to. Eric Duffey’s signature and a note of his to front cover. Fine softback. [56624] £75.00 ‘This Catalogue indexes all specific or sub-specific taxa indicated from west-palearctic area noted in bibliographic catalogues as well as in the list of species in regional or national catalogues. After the presentation of the study, the list of synonymous names and a generic index are quoted.’ 10. Craig, C.L. Spiderwebs and Silk. Tracing Evolution from Molecules to Genes to Phenotypes. 1st. Ed. Pub. Oxford Uni. Press. 2003 pp.xxv, 230 with b/w. photos., figs., and tables. 8vo. Eric Duffey’s address label. Fine hardback. [56595] £20.00 Links the molecular evolution of silk proteins to the evolution and behavioural ecology of web-spinning spiders and other arthropods, providing a unique insight into how molecular evolution can both enable and limit species diversity. 11. Crocker, J. and Daws, J. Spiders of Leicestershire & Rutland [with] Spiders of Leicestershire & Rutland - Millennium Atlas. 1st. Ed. Pub. Loughborough Nat. Club. 1996 & 2001 Two volumes; pp.247 with b/w. photos., illus., and dist. maps., pp.120 with illus., and dist maps. 4to. Eric Duffey’s address labels. Nr. fine softback and a fine softback respectively. [56628] £25.00 The superb illustrations are by Michael J. Roberts. 12. Cruveillier, Marcel. Des Araignees en Limousin. Presentation de trente annees d’etudes et de prospections. 1st. Ed. Pub. A.U.L.E.P.E 2014 pp.348 with colour and b/w. photos. 4to. Eric Duffey’s address label to front cover. A nr. fine softback. Neat dedication by the Author to Eric Duffey to title page. [56626] £40.00 13. D’Andrea, M. Social Behaviour in Spiders (Arachnida Araneae). N.S. Monographia 3. 1st. Ed. Pub. Italian Journal of Zoology. 1987 pp.ix, 156 with b/w. illus., and tables. 8vo. Eric Duffey’s address label to front cover and handwritten title to spine. A nr. fine softback. Scarce. [56569] £50.00 14. De Castro, Alberto. (Ed.). Munibe. Supplemento 21. Bioaniztasuna eta araknidoak. Biodiversidad y aracnidos. Biodiversity and arachnids. 1st. Ed. Pub. Aranzadi Science Soc. 2005 pp.170 with colour photos, b/w. figs., tables and dist maps. 4to. Eric Duffey’s address label to front cover. A fine softback. [56627] £30.00 Ornogabeak eta garapen jasangarriaren euskal inguramen estrategia. Los invertebrados y la estrategia ambiental vasca de desarrollo sostenible. Invertebrates and the basque environmental strategy for sustainable development. 15. Deltshev, C. & Stoev, P. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 22nd European Colloquium of Arachnology. Blagoevgrad 2005. 1st. Ed. Pub. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. 2006 pp.343 with b/w. photos., illus., figs., and tables. 8vo. Address label to front cover and neat annotation by Eric Duffey to p.3. A fine softback. [56578] £40.00 16. Dondale, C.D. & Redner, J.H. The Crab Spiders of Canada and Alaska. Araneae: Philodromidae and Thomisidae. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada. Part 5. 1st. Ed. Pub. Canada Dept. of Agriculture. 1978 pp.255 with b/w. illus. and dist. maps throughout. 8vo. Eric Duffey’s signature. A thor. vg. softback in gently sunned covers. [56567] £50.00 17. Fabre, J. H. The Life of the Spider. 4th Ed. Pub. Hodder & Stoughton. 1919 pp.xxxix, 378. 8vo. Contents fine. Hardback. Signature of Eric Duffey. Spine sunned and gently worn, o/w. original decorated green cloth boards in vg. condition. With a newspaper article from Le Figaro (2003) entitled ‘Jean-Henri Fabre, l’Homere des insectes’ loosely inserted. [56589] £10.00 18. Foelix, R.F. Biology of Spiders 2nd. Ed. Pub. Harvard Uni. Press. 1982 pp.vi, 306 with b/w. photos., and illus., throughout. 8vo. Eric Duffey’s stamp and address label. A nr. fine hardback in gently sunned boards. [56598] £25.00 Considered a classic in spider literature. One of the only books to treat the whole spider, from its behaviour and physiology to its neurobiology and reproductive characteristics. 19. Forster, R.R. & Wilton, C.L. The Spiders of New Zealand. Parts I to III. Pub. Otago Museum Trust Board. 1968 -70 Three volumes with b/w. illus throughout. 4to. A nr. fine hardback set in gently sunned and bumped covers. Parts 2 and 3 are first editions, Part 1 is a first edition reprint.