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Post by wollastoni on Apr 4, 2015 13:44:50 GMT
It is now available !
OUTSTANDING BB BOOK NEWS
Now in press.
BOOK Launch Special Price : 550€ + shipping until late July 2015. Then the rate will be 600€ + shipping.
Reservation : Orders or reservations may be made with Gilles Deslisle (gildesl@derytele.com) or to the attention of Céline Bousquet at 23bis Boulevard de l’Ariane 06 300 NICE. arianesci@wanadoo.fr Tel : (+33)04 93 54 67 90 Fax : 04 93 54 10 44
Details to come on the payment payable to Ornitho Press and shipping from Nice (France) or Québec (Canada) by destination.
Here is some information :
1642 Pages in 2 tomes with jacket in case : Tome I (page 1-813); Tome II (page 814-1642)
9300 Figures 139 Maps 11 Keys 1 Genus (Ornithoptera) 4 Subgenera (Schoenbergia, Straatmana, Ornithoptera and Aetheoptera) 11 Species 27 Subspecies 57 Local forms, + 12 (?) 235 Forms specific to 61 taxa (of which 75 nov.) 12 Biform specimens 156 Oddities 44 Gynandromorph specimens: 12 perfect bilateral, 6 imperfect bilateral, 9 mosaic morphology with mosaic abdomen, 4 mosaic morphology with male abdomen, 4 mosaic morphology with female abdomen and 9 unconventional. 52 Combinations of hybrids (187 specimens)
Data on specimens mainly based after the Jean-Pierre Sclavo and the Insectarium de Montréal (Deslisle Bequest) collections, but also from 50 of the most important reference collections of Birdwing Butterflies in the world. Male and female are illustrated life size, upper side and underside in full color, with their range of individual variations. Furthermore, superb imago’s photographs in the wild, early stages, host-plants and environment.
Man and Birdwing Butterflies (Historic Part) The most complete reference book about Birdwings Butterflies to date.
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Post by mikelock34 on Jun 7, 2015 0:39:22 GMT
Gilles mentioned during the first week of April that the book would be ready in eight weeks from then. Has anyone heard any new news?
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Post by mygos on Sept 25, 2015 13:49:00 GMT
Good news, my copy is on the way to me. Left Nice (south of France) this morning. It should be on my desk monday when I will be back from Juvisy fair A+, Michel
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Post by wollastoni on Sept 28, 2015 12:18:39 GMT
I had the pleasure to see this book in Juvisy. One word : it is FANTASTIC ! I think it is the most complete Monograph I have seen on any Lepidoptera genus.
17 years of work to share all current knowledge about Ornithoptera and an impressive detective work to find the most impressive forms of Ornithoptera in collection.
It really worths the cost for all Ornithoptera collectors.
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Post by africaone on Sept 30, 2015 6:26:35 GMT
anyway, collectors are of (many) different kinds and books is is at the images of these categories. Ornithoptera have probably the biggest % of non scientist lovers (the real percentage of scientist that are really busy with the scientific aspects of Ornithoptera is between 0-1 %) and then it seems logical that most of the books or works done on the genus are made for this public. the business around this genus (and a few others like morpho, etc.) is absolutely crazy regarding the rest of insect. Simple and logic. I have to add that a book that represent all aspects of the phenotypes is pleasant to read, allows to dream and allows to have access to images of things impossible to get for most of us. ... hoping juts a price is accessible
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Post by nomad on Sept 30, 2015 17:14:46 GMT
I had the pleasure to see this book in Juvisy. One word : it is FANTASTIC ! I think it is the most complete Monograph I have seen on any Lepidoptera genus. 17 years of work to share all current knowledge about Ornithoptera and an impressive detective work to find the most impressive forms of Ornithoptera in collection. It really worths the cost for all Ornithoptera collectors. Yes, a fantastic work. It is about time there was a similar English work on Delias. Talbot's work is great but now far out of date. The Japanese Delias work has superb specimens figures, but all the text is in Japanese and again needs updating.
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Post by timmsyrj on Oct 1, 2015 11:27:14 GMT
Could any book rival the Delias website, excellent photo's and accurate data which can be updated regularly, the only draw back with books, they are soon out dated but good for reference, there's always a better book coming along.
Rich
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Post by wollastoni on Oct 1, 2015 12:05:42 GMT
Well they could be complementary.
If one of the big Delias collectors has the time for such a book, I would be happy to help him. But I personnally don't have the time, I am already late in updating the Delias website...
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Post by trehopr1 on Oct 1, 2015 15:30:04 GMT
I have had a lifelong appreciation and general love of books. They have always been a tangible reminder of man's acquired knowledge in printed form. And of coarse prior to that humans passed along their knowledge via stone ( Egyptians, South American cultures etc.). However, I am not necessarily a devout believer in the worldwide web we have these days. It is a grand thing in many ways and surely a forward leap in our knowledge base and our technological savvy ( making the world a smaller place) so to speak. But, it is dependent on power (electrical and otherwise) and satellites. Should the power grid go down or be lost or the satellites fail or the system suffer irreparable damage due to hackers than where are we ? Right back to the books or the "old fashioned" card files and ledgers which were once a big part in man keeping his business as we know it --- in order. I'm not any sort of doomsday type person. But, I believe we have become far to dependent on all this modern day information hanging in space, being on websites, or on files which can only be retrieved via computer. I will always be able to find my tangible "dated information books " available when I need them but, should the day ever arrive when I rev-up my computer, iPad, iPhone etc. and the screen is black........... then a fat lot of good it does me then.
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Post by wollastoni on Oct 1, 2015 15:53:02 GMT
True that websites can crash or disappear easily.
We all know some examples (the Colias website of Juha for example)
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Post by nomad on Oct 1, 2015 17:22:53 GMT
The Delias of the World website is wonderful and very informative . The life size specimen plates in works such as the new Ornithoptera book, can only be produced by high quality photographic equipment, which websites cannot reproduce, so a book would be a real complement. An in depth historical and Modern section on the Delias collectors who discovered species and subspecies would be useful and their methods of obtaining specimens with a list of the species they discovered .
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Post by nomad on Oct 1, 2015 17:29:50 GMT
On another note, considering the appeal of Delias, it is surprising no one has produced a recent book. Just go through the Pemberley website and there are new butterfly and other entomology books appearing on a weekly basis.
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Post by deliasfanatic on Oct 1, 2015 18:05:02 GMT
Agreed, Delias could certainly use an updated book. The Japanese book is nice, but quite outdated and it also contains numerous errors.
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Post by nomad on Oct 1, 2015 18:40:59 GMT
I believe a comprehensive work on Delias would have to involve several expert specialists and would take a long time produce
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Post by mygos on Oct 2, 2015 10:10:42 GMT
The problem is that, in the entomological world, it is generally not a publisher that orders a book on a special subject from an author, but rather the contrary. Therefore, if nobody is prepared or wants to write a new revision on Delias, nothing will happened But I think we get out of the original subject of this post Nomad, and would be better to transfer the above comments in a new post A+, Michel
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