Insects at Home: Being a Popular Account of British Insects, Their Structure, Habits, and Transformations
by Wood, J.G
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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IVER, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1892. xx, 670, col frontis, 20 b/w plates, 79 woodcut illus. . HB. 8vo, orig. dec. cloth, gt, aeg, minor wear to extremities. Light foxing to prelims; owner's name to front pastedown; binding a bit slack with some gatherings starting to become detached; one leaf (pp 391-394) loose. A good copy in a bright binding.. New edition. Illustrations by E.A. Smith and J.B. Zwecker, engraved by G. Pearson..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S39089
- Title
- Insects at Home: Being a Popular Account of British Insects, Their Structure, Habits, and Transformations
- Author
- Wood, J.G
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- Britain; Insects
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Pemberley Books
Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- Cloth
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- AEG
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- G
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