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A Treatise on Some of the Insects Injurious to Vegetation
by Harris, Thaddeus William; Agassiz, Louis (Illust. Supervision); Flint, Charles L. (Ed.)
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1862. New Edition, Enlarged and Improved, with Additions from the Author's Manuscripts and Original Notes. Hardcover. Very good. New Edition, Enlarged and Improved, with Additions from the Author's Manuscripts and Original Notes. Hardcover. The insects examined in this 1862 treatise by influential entomologist and Harvard librarian Thaddeus William Harris (1795-1856) may be "injurious to vegetation," but they certainly do grace the 8 gorgeously colored chromolithographic plates inside these strikingly gilt-stamped boards, joined by a swarm of 278 figures, engravings drawn from nature under the supervision of the great Louis Agassiz.
8 1/2" X 6". xi, 640pp, plus two pages of publisher's ads. Bound in full emerald coarse wave grain cloth over bevelled boards, with large moth stamped in gilt to both boards, spine lettered in kind with spotted Pelidnota in gilt to tail. Moderate wear to binding, with small tears to edges and extremities, particularly at head and tail of spine, scattered rubbing, including to gilt, and light dust soiling to cloth. All edges red. Both inner hinges have cracked and have been reinforced with archival adhesive, with some tears visible to gutters of endpapers. Name of Paul L. Rice, "Agr. Exp. Station" in pencil to front free endpaper. Small crease turning to neat tear to upper margin of Plate IV, with large open tear to facing tissue-guard. Strong off-setting to tissue-guards and pages following from color plates, and occasional spot of foxing or light toning, else pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated in 8 chromolithographic plates and 278 black and white figures.
8 1/2" X 6". xi, 640pp, plus two pages of publisher's ads. Bound in full emerald coarse wave grain cloth over bevelled boards, with large moth stamped in gilt to both boards, spine lettered in kind with spotted Pelidnota in gilt to tail. Moderate wear to binding, with small tears to edges and extremities, particularly at head and tail of spine, scattered rubbing, including to gilt, and light dust soiling to cloth. All edges red. Both inner hinges have cracked and have been reinforced with archival adhesive, with some tears visible to gutters of endpapers. Name of Paul L. Rice, "Agr. Exp. Station" in pencil to front free endpaper. Small crease turning to neat tear to upper margin of Plate IV, with large open tear to facing tissue-guard. Strong off-setting to tissue-guards and pages following from color plates, and occasional spot of foxing or light toning, else pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated in 8 chromolithographic plates and 278 black and white figures.
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- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14181
- Title
- A Treatise on Some of the Insects Injurious to Vegetation
- Author
- Harris, Thaddeus William; Agassiz, Louis (Illust. Supervision); Flint, Charles L. (Ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New Edition, Enlarged and Improved, with Additions from the Auth
- Publisher
- Crosby and Nichols
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1862
- Keywords
- giftable publishers cloth binding
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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