[LEPS-L:7865] Re: Holland book

[JH]

I own both the 1904 Holland guide (The Moth Book) and the 1968 Dover
reprint, which I had acquired years earlier.  I have always been
disappointed with the plates in the Dover guide, and only used it as a last
resort.  About 5 years ago, I got the whole New Nature Library series and
was shocked at how clean and crisp the plates are in the '04 Moth Book in
comparison to the reprint!

John
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris J. Durden <drdn at mail.utexas.edu>
To: leps-l at lists.yale.edu <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 12:27 PM
Subject: [LEPS-L:7861] Re: Holland book


>Ken,
>  Yes you were very lucky. My bookbuying started a little later because in
>the fifties I could use the library at CNC/Ottawa and in the sixties I
>could use the YPM library and Carnegie Museum Library. I did not start
>serious book acquisition until the seventies in Texas. I think that the
>1930 revised Holland BB has the same plates as the later printings, but I
>am not certain. How many plates does your copy have.
>  The Holland plates are useful. Many of them show "type" specimens, the
>status of which was discussed later by F. M. Brown in a series of papers
>with b&w illustrations. There are also a number of 'types' from authors
>other than Edwards and Holland that are only illustrated in the BB. An
>annotated guide to the plates would be a very useful paper. As far as I
>know it has not been done yet. Someone within commuting distance of
>Carnegie Museum could do it easily.
>..............Chris
>
>
>At 11:28  13/11/00 -0900, you wrote:
>>
>>Chris:
>>
>> As you could guess from my posting to Leps-L, I was lucky enough
>>many years ago to pick up the complete New Nature Library (for $8 per
>>volume--those were the days!). I also have the 1904 and 1951 editions of
>>Holland's Butterfly Book--the 1951 version has some added plates I found
>>useful, but I don't know if they were added since the 1930 edition. Plus
>>the Moth Book (1903), and the Insect Book and the Spider Book in separate
>>editions. These are all invaluable things to have around, dspite their
>>age. I have had all of these for a long time--the 1951 Holland I picked
>>up in a bookstore in Lake Charles, LA during my 2-year stint in the US
>>Army 1954-6, and the others I have had since high school days or earlier.
>>It was so much easier to find these things back then--although the prices
>>(insanely low by modern standards) were not that low for a child on an
>>allowance in the 1940s...
>>
>> It is fortunate for me that I made a determined effort to obtain
>>every butterfly reference book I could afford before I moved to Fairbanks.
>>The University library has nothing on butterflies (or moths), so I am
>>entirely dependent on my own library--but with things like Edwards'
Butter-
>>flies of North America (Frederick Ducane Godman's copy!) and Scudder's
>>New England volumes around, plus a fair number of other North American
>>references, I can make do OK on my own.
>>
>> Then there were the times I visited dos Passos--and discovered that
>>my lep library was insignificant compared to his!
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
>>
>>
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