ANTS, BEES, AND WASPS-A RECORD OF OBSERVATIONS ON THE HABITS OF THE SOCIAL HYMENOPTERA
by LUBBOCK, SIR JOHN
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No d/w
- Seller
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Skreen, Sligo, Ireland
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About This Item
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1915. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Seventeenth Edition, Revised-Third Imp.. xvii + 436pp + 6 colour plates and fold-out map to rear; Many textual drawings and tables; Slight sunning to covers and head and tail of spine show minor shelf wear else a very bright and tight copy; Size: 12mo.
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- Bookseller
- Weathered Stone Books (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004476
- Title
- ANTS, BEES, AND WASPS-A RECORD OF OBSERVATIONS ON THE HABITS OF THE SOCIAL HYMENOPTERA
- Author
- LUBBOCK, SIR JOHN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No d/w
- Edition
- Seventeenth Edition, Revised-Third Imp.
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1915
- Keywords
- ANTS, BEES, WASPS; HYMENOPTERA;
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Weathered Stone Books
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Skreen, Sligo
About Weathered Stone Books
In operation since 1982 as The Winding Stair Bookshop, Dublin until 2005. Then in USA as Wandering Star Books an online bookseller also conducting appraisals for private collectors and institutions. Now back in Ireland and living in beautiful Sligo with views of the Atlantic and selling online.
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- Shelf Wear
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- 12mo
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- Tail
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