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Post by hewi on Jan 28, 2021 14:14:34 GMT -8
My first butterfly book was an album with advertising pictures for collecting of the yarn manufacturer Gütermann from 1954. Although the butterfly pictures were not very lifelike, they fascinated me as a 10-year-old boy. This album was the initial inspiration for my lifelong enthusiasm for butterflies. And even today, after more than 60 years, I still feel something of that elation when I look at this old album.  |
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Post by kevinkk on Jan 28, 2021 16:26:45 GMT -8
Cracker Jacks have come a long way, that book does look informative. I've never seen a butterfly cocoon, I'll look harder.
It reminds me of one day when Dad came home from work, Mom stopped him at the door and said don't look in the backyard.
I'd read you could find dinosaur bones by digging them up.
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Post by livingplanet3 on Jan 28, 2021 17:03:16 GMT -8
...It reminds me of one day when Dad came home from work, Mom stopped him at the door and said don't look in the backyard. I'd read you could find dinosaur bones by digging them up. If you happen to live in the right place, you certainly can! A couple of other nice 1970s books on insects that I've long had, both by Robert Goodden -   |
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Post by trehopr1 on Jan 28, 2021 21:37:58 GMT -8
Hey fella's, I do hope you know I was just funn'in with you guys
about that tiny "Encyclopedia of Insects" book and the yarn I gave
about it...
O'h such a tiny book does exist and I found mine many years ago at
a flea market. This guy had several "riker" mounts of cracker jacks
prizes displayed and as I looked them over for unique things -- there
it was.
I simply could not resist owning THE smallest insect book in
my library !
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Post by yorky on Jan 29, 2021 2:17:43 GMT -8
This was mine, the cover changed many times over the years, mine was from 1973. Attachments:
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Post by bobw on Jan 29, 2021 5:14:14 GMT -8
I no longer have mine but I guess it would have been from about 1960, and I'm sure the cover was different.
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Post by trehopr1 on Jan 29, 2021 8:39:23 GMT -8
What do you know; I have have that book too. Picked up a nice copy a few years ago whilst on Ebay. Nice book indeed...  |
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Post by kevinkk on Jan 29, 2021 9:16:18 GMT -8
Those old books are fun to look at, and I've got a few, one I still reference now and then is from 1956, A Silkmoth Rearer's Handbook by W.J.B. Crotch,
the names change, and that's interesting as well.
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Post by trehopr1 on Jan 29, 2021 9:38:53 GMT -8
I also acquired both of those Goodden books many years ago now... I'd have to say, the second book with Papilio machaon on the cover became very near and dear to me because of its excellent "full-page" pictures of butterflies from various regions (So. America, Africa, Indo-Australia etc..). Of coarse, the book also had good narratives about the butterflies from these various regions. Additionally, the author provided photos of singularly interesting species unto themselves -- i.e. Phoebis avellaneda and a few others. *At the very back of the book within the last couple pages there is a full-page photo for "shock & awe" and it featured 3 of the best known and/or highly prized Ornithoptera species ! That picture alone stole my heart; I've always loved it... So much so, that I got a spare copy of the book and, that picture now resides on the inside of a door of one of my cabinets. As shown below in my hobby room...  |
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Post by yorky on Jan 29, 2021 10:32:49 GMT -8
I had a nice couple of hours with Robert Goodden a few years ago when I went to pick up a cabinet from him.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jan 29, 2021 13:38:06 GMT -8
I met him briefly in the 1970s when I visited WWB.
Adam.
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Post by bobw on Jan 29, 2021 16:16:24 GMT -8
I knew him a bit. We used to chat at the insect fairs and he sometimes bought stuff from me.
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Post by yorky on Jan 29, 2021 17:07:27 GMT -8
Used to visit WWB about 4 times a year. Pre Internet it was the go to place for specimens as I didn't know fairs existed until 25 years ago.
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Post by joachim on Feb 19, 2021 18:22:26 GMT -8
Hello,
on the backgraund, is that a wesp nest?
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Post by joachim on Feb 28, 2021 14:25:30 GMT -8
My first books were "Schreibers kleine Atlanten" where there were several small books about butterflies , birds, minerals etc. I often look at the page where the apollo and machaon are. oldthing.ch/Schreibers-kleiner-Atlas-Schmetterlinge-Raupe-Hefte-1und2-um-1920-Natur-Wissen-sf-0033540206Also the one with moths, I made small remarks for the ones I had seen. This was in 1969 or so......ÄÄäähhh, yes I was a little younger than now.However, this small book was written by prof jacobs, so no amateur which means the books are really good and up to date now. Later I bought Urania insect book www.booklooker.de/B%C3%BCcher/Autorenkollektiv+Urania-Tierreich-Insekten/id/A02fmTfp01ZZNIt was made in east Germany and some wonderful pictures of Agras and Ornithoptera, specimens in the east people could only dream of. But, so far very good regarding the content I also have some Seitz, dábrera, P.Smart and the best on is Korf, 1880. regards Joachim |
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