A Treatise on the Insect Enemies of Fruit and Fruit Trees

Book Description

New York: William Wood,. 1865. 4to. H Cloth. About Fine.. New York: William Wood & Company, 1865. 4to, dark blue cloth with ornamental lettering in gilt on front cover and in blind on back cover. Little discolored, small nick at s pine; internal crack. Plates bright with original tissue guards.A practical manual for fruit-growers to aid in identifying harmful insects. Eleven lithographic plates: nine colored and two tinted of i nsect-ravaged fruit. The pla tes are attractive in a somewhat morbid way. Hedrick, page 529: "The plates are rather horrifying examples of all the problems from insects which faced the fruit grower."B ennett, American Nineteenth C entury Color Plate Books, page 106. Not in Reese, Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books. Binding is Gilt- lettered Cloth.

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