170 Rare Vintage Books on Insect Life Study DVD

A truly unique and wonderful collection of over 170 rare and out of print books covering entomology and natural history of insects.

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 natural history of British insects – E Donovan 1802

Insects their ways and means of living – R Evans Snodgrasss

Aid to the identification of insects (2 volumes) – C O Waterhouse 1882

Alphabet of insects for the use of beginners – J Rennie 1832

American entomology – T Say 1817

A description of the insects of North America – T Say

American insects – V L Kellog 1908

The anatomy, physiology, morphology, and development of the blow-fly (2 volumes) – T Lowne 1892

Annulosa Javanica, or, an attempt to illustrate the natural affinities and analogies of the insects collected in Java – W S Macleay 1825

Ants and some other insects – Dr A Forel 1904

Apple tree insects of Maine – E M Patch

Arcana Entomologica, or illustrations of new, rare and interesting insects (volume 1) – J O Westwood 1845

Australian insects – W W Froggatt

Beneficial insects (28 pages) – 1922

A bibliography of fossil insects – S H Scudder 1882

The biology of insects – G H Carpenter

Blood sucking insects of Formosa – 1918

British insects – E F Stareley 1871

British insects – W Percival Westell 1922

British insects and how to know them – H Bastin 1917

British Libellulimae; or dragon flies – W F Evans 1845

The cabinet of oriental entomology (India and adjacent islands) – J O Westwood 1848

Canadian fossil insects (volume 2) – S H Scudder 1895

Catalogue of Hymemopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum – E Smith 1858

A catalogue of insects of Pennsylvania – F V Melsheimer 1806

A catalogue of the neuropteroid insects (except odonata) of the United States – N Banks 1907

Catalogue of the specimens of neuropterous insects in the collection of the British Museum – 1852

Cecil’s book of insects – S H Peabody 1868

The classification of insects from embryological data – Prof L Agassie 1850

The coccidae of California – E K Carnes 1906

Coleoptera atlantidum, being an enumeration of the coleopterous insects of the Madeiras, Salvages, and Canaries – T V Wollaston 1865

The colours of animals, their meaning, and use, especially considered in the case of insects – E B Poulton 1890

Common British insects – Rev J G Wood 1882

Common injurious insects of Kansas – V L Kellog 1892

Curious facts in the history of insects – E Cowan 1865

A decade of curious insects – J Hill 1773

Descriptions and figures of some new lepidopterous insects, chiefly from Nepal – G R Gray 1846

Destructive insects, their natural enemies, remedies and recommendations – A Craw 1891

Directions for collecting and preserving insects – C V Riley 1892

Boys and girls club work, diseases and insects of the home garden

Elementary lessons on insects – J G Needham

Elements of Entomology: An outline of the natural history and classification of British insects – W S Dallas 1807

Household and camp insects – E Porter Felt 1917

How to collect and preserve insects

Illustrations of British insects (5 volumes) – J F Stephens 1846

Illustrations of exotic entomology (2 volumes) – D Drury 1837

Index entomologicus: or, a complete illustrated catalogue, consisting of 1944 figures, of the lepidopterous insects of Great Britain – W Wood 1839

Index to the known fossil insects of the world – S H Scuddder 1891

Indian forest insects of economic importance coteoptera – E P Stebbing 1914

Indian insect life – H M Lefroy 1909

Injurious insects: how to recognise and control them – W C O’Kane 1912

The insect book: A popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects – L O Howard 1902

Report of the Canadian Arctic expedition 1913 – 18, volume 2: Insects – C Gordon Hewitt 1920

Insects – D Sharp 1909

Insects abroad – Rev J G Wood 1874

Insects abroad – Rev J G Wood 1883

Insects affecting park and woodland trees (New York State Museum) – 1906

Insects affecting the orange – H G Hubbard 1885

Insects at home – Rev J G Wood 1872

Insects injurious to forest trees (New York State) – Felt 1898

Insects injurious to the American Elm – G H Perkins 1890

Insects injurious to staple crops – E Dwight Sanderson 1902

Insects injurious to fruits – W Saunders 1883

Insects and insecticides – 1905

Insects and man – C A Ealand 1915

Insects of economic importance – G W Herrrick 1915

Insects of Rhode Island – C Abbottt Davis 1901

Insects their life histories and habits – H Bastin 1913

Insects their structure and life – G H Carpenter 1899

Insect variety: Its propagation and distribution – A H Swinton

The insect world – L Figuier 1869

Instructions for collecting, rearing, and preserving British and foreign insects – A Ingpen 1839

An introduction to entomology or, elements of the natural history of insects – W Kirby 1865

An introduction to entomology or, elements of the natural history of insects (4 volumes) – W Kirby 1828

An introduction to the modern classification of insects (2 volumes) – J O Westwood 1839

Key to the families of North American insects – C Brues 1915

Label list of insects of the Dominion of Canada – 1883

Leaf mining insects – J G Needham 1928

Letters on entomology intended for the amusement and instruction of young persons – 1825

Life and her children, glimpses of animal life from the amoeba to the insects – A B Buckley 1881

Life histories of Indian insects microlepidoptera – 1920

The life of North American insects – B Jaeger 1854

Life stories of Australian insects – M N Brewster 1920

The life story of insects – G H Carpenter 1913

A manual for the study of insects – J H Comstock 1895

Manual of tree and shrub insects – E Porter 1928

Manual of vegetable garden insects – C R Crosby 1918

Illustration of insects, native and foreign, order hemiptera – T Glover 1876

Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensiss – J O Westwood 1874

The transformations of insects – P M Duncan

A treatise on some of the insects injurious to vegetation – T W Harris 1863

True tales of the insects – L N Badenoch 1899

Wild bees, wasps and ants – E Saunders

The wings of insects – J H Comstock 1918

A monograph of the fossil insects of the British coal measures – H Bolton 1921

Natural history of the insects of China (2 volumes) – J O Westwood 1838

The natural history of remarkable insects – 1822

The natural history of aquatic insects – Prof L C Miall 19222

Natural history of insects (2 volumes) – 1833

Our insects friends and enemies – J B Smith 1909

Parasitic and predaceous insects in applied entomology – C V Riley 1893

Popular British entomology – M E Catlow

The psychic life of insects – E L Bouvier 1922

The question concerning the sensibility, intelligence and instinctive actions of insects – D Badham 1837

A report on the insects of Massachusetts, injurious to vegetation – 1841

New South Wales report on parasitic and injurious insects – W Froggatt 1909

Scale insects of the Santa Cruz peninsula – G F Ferris 1920

Sketches of British insects, a handbook for beginners in the study of entomology – Rev W Houghton 1888

A systematic catalogue of British insects – J F Stephens 1829

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.

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