Origin

It was established in 1989 and was directed by Lydie Leforestier.

The name comes from they were initially located Hillside Avenue at Canterbury

Canterbury

Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a district of Kent in South East England. It lies on the River Stour....

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Then, they were situated in Lindfield, West Sussex

Lindfield, West Sussex

Lindfield is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. The parish lies to the north-east of Haywards Heath, of which the village is a part of the built-up area. It stands on the upper reaches of the River Ouse...

, U.K.

Activities

In addition to selling new and old literature, with about 25,000 references available - most certainly the larger offer of entomological literature of the world - they publish great entomological books for the specialist such as:

• The Beetles of the World
  The Beetles of the World
  The Beetles of the World is a series of books devoted to the study of the Coleoptera, worldwide. Sciences Nat published the 24 first volumes; the following volumes and the supplements were published by Hillside Books, Canterbury....
  
   volumes 25 to 30 and some supplements;
• the continuation of the work of Jean-Claude Weiss: The Parnassiinae
  Parnassiinae
  The Parnassiinae or Snow Apollos are a subfamily of the Papilionidae or Swallowtail family. The subfamily includes about 50 medium sized, white or yellow species...
  
   of the world parts 3 and 4, and:
• The Monograph of the genus Morpho part 3, by Patrick Blandin, who his probably the best connoisseur of this genus
  Genus
  In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
  
   in the world.

They were the only distributors of the entomological journals Besoiro

Besoiro

Besoiro is a French entomological scientific journal. It is published by Patrick Arnaud and was established in 1995. The name means beetle in Portuguese. The taxa described are included on the Zoological Record volumes....

 and Coléoptères

Coléoptères

Coléoptères is a French-language scientific journal of entomology.- History :Following the cessation of publication of the Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat in 1995, there was a major need of entomologists for a journal that could publish descriptions of new species of insects very rapidly, and...

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They have also sold some equipement such as continental entomological insect pins and mounting cards two types of materials widely used by entomologists in continental Europe but not in common use in U.K.

Closing

In June 2011 termination of the activity, asking Erich Bauer, Goecke & Evers, Germany, for agreeing to continue publishing the work of Jean-Claude Weiss, and to sell the remaining stock of the literature.