Guide to the Study of Insects and a Treatise on those Injurious and Beneficial to Crops.
by Packard, Alpheus S
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- Slight wear to the head and foot of the spine, otherwise a tight, clean, near fine copy.
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1889, Ninth Edition. Slight wear to the head and foot of the spine, otherwise a tight, clean, near fine copy.. Pp. xii, 715, 15 plates, 670 woodcuts. Publisher's dark green ribbed cloth with beveled edges, gilt-lettered on the spine with gilt beetle at the base and gilt butterfly on front cover, chocolate brown endpapers, lg 8vo. From the library of George H. Beatty, III with his signature on the title page and name stamp on the endpapers.
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- Natural History Books
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- Title
- Guide to the Study of Insects and a Treatise on those Injurious and Beneficial to Crops.
- Author
- Packard, Alpheus S
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight wear to the head and foot of the spine, otherwise a tight, clean, near fine copy.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1889, Ninth Edition
- Keywords
- Entomology insects Arthropodology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Entomology;
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