The Hymenoptera Aculeata of the British Islands - a descriptive account of the families, genera and species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, with notes as to habits, localities, habitats etc
by Saunders, Edward
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
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About This Item
London: L. Reeve & Co, 1896. With 3 plain and 51 colour plates, slightly age-toned, quarto, pp xii, 392, new endpapers, original cloth slightly rubbed, slightly more so at the joints, spine slightly marked. Seventeen of the plates have a paper production crease horizontally, and two plates have a slight mark on the facing letterpress page which has transferred to the plate - see illlustrations for examples. [Ray Palmer's copy, with his two-page manuscript "additions" list bound in at the front and a few neat manuscript pencil notes internally. Also with the signature of Charles Fredk Knight.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008965
- Title
- The Hymenoptera Aculeata of the British Islands - a descriptive account of the families, genera and species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, with notes as to habits, localities, habitats etc
- Author
- Saunders, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- L. Reeve & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- entomology.bees.wasps.ants.ichnemon.sawflies.britain.british.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Entomology; Victorian;
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