British Insects and how to identity them.
by CRABTREE J.H
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Epworth Press,, [1923]. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured double-page plate as frontispiece and numerous monochrome photographs in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, coloured illustration (repeated from frontispiece) mounted in frame on upper board, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly age-soiled and with short closed tear. Published as no. 17 in the 'How to Identify' series. Scarce in anything like this condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12340
- Title
- British Insects and how to identity them.
- Author
- CRABTREE J.H
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Epworth Press,
- Date Published
- [1923]
- Keywords
- natural history, insects, entomology, how to identify, epworth, j.h. crabtree, natural history, insects, british, insects, how, identity, them
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