Insect life. An introduction to nature-study and a guide for teachers, students, and others interested in out-of-door life. With full-page plates from life reproducing insects in natural colors, and with many original illustrations by Anna Botsford Comstock, member of the Society of American Wood Engravers.

Comstock, J.

Verlag: 1901 (2nd ed.), 1901

Beschreibung

[iv], 349 p., 196 figs, 18 plates (several in colour), full colour frontispiece, original pictorial cloth with gilt title on spine and mounted full colour vignette on front board. A work by the American entomologist John Henry Comstock (1849-1931). Well-illustrated and with the coloured plates tissue guarded with explanatory text printed on the guards. This is the second edition "in color", the first being published in 1897. Former owner's name written on front paste-down, there also a typed presentatation label. Small, inoffensive blindstamp on explanatory leaf, otherwise a very good clean copy.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers EG27105

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Insect life. An introduction to nature-study and a guide for teachers, students, and others interested in out-of-door life. With full-page plates from life reproducing insects in natural colors, and with many original illustrations by Anna Botsford Comstock, member of the Society of American Wood Engravers.
• Verlag: 1901 (2nd ed.)
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1901