Description and condition: Black cloth hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 327pp, index, glossary, b/w illustrations, map. Very good, owners blind-stamped details on title page, else with nice clean pages. In good, now protected, dustcover with small loss, which has been pasted onto thick brown paper. Contents: Collecting: where to look; catching and trapping; keeping, breeding and rearing; killing and temporarily preserving. Preserving and examining: preparing and mounting for permanent preservation; examining insects in a collection; photographing insects. Studying: the principles of zoological classification and nomenclature; what are the insects and their allies; how an insect is identified; further reading; recording new facts, and describing new species. Appendices. |
