Insects Abroad: being a popular account of Foreign Insects, their Structure, Habits and Transformations
by Wood, J.G
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1892. xii, 780, 20 b/w plates, 520 text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. dec. cloth, gt, teg, minor wear to extremities. Scattered light foxing. Vg.. New edition. Illustrations by E.A. Smith and J.B. Zwecker, engraved by G. Pearson. Wood states "the object of the work is two-fold; first to show the great and important part played by Insects in the economy of the world, and the extreme value to mankind of those insects we are accustomed to call Destructives; and next to note the wonderful modifications of structure which enable the insects to fulfil their mission, and the surpassing beauty with which many of them are endowed.".
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S39090
- Title
- Insects Abroad: being a popular account of Foreign 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
- Entomology
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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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