Introducing the Insect
by Urquhart, F. A
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Clarke Irwin, 1949. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, x + 287 pages including drawings, plus full colour Plates; very gently used, tight in binding, only tiny traces of shelf wear at cover edges and spine ends, some patches of fading corresponding to chips in DJ, several rubber stamps of a high school, but no library markings, otherwise very clean and unmarked; DJ chipped and torn, particularly at spine ends, but intact and about 95% complete, now in new mylar protector. See also our listings for Beningfield's Butterflies : Paintings and Drawings by Gordon Beningfield, and for The Pond: The Life of the Aquatic Plants, Insects, Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, Mammals, and Birds that Inhabit the Pond and its Surrounding Hillside and Swamp, or for something completely different, Whitney Cranshaw`s Bagging Big Bugs : How to Identify, Collect and Display the Largest and Most Colorful Insects of the Rocky Mountain Region. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 041695
- Title
- Introducing the Insect
- Author
- Urquhart, F. A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Clarke Irwin
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- LOCAL CANADIAN HUNTING WILDLIFE NATURE NATURAL HISTORY ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE RURAL FARM AGRICULTURE MANMADE WATER SUPPLY PONDS LAKES AMERICAN UNITED STATES US ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY GOVERNMENT ECOLOGY SOCIAL FARMING Entomology Bugs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare Books; Environment/Ecology; Nature/Natural Science/Pets;
Terms of Sale
Eric James
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