Fabre's Book of Insects: Retold [by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell] from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques"
by Fabre, Jean Henri (text); E. J. Detmold (illustrator); Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (translator)
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New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1939. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good -. Detmold, E. J.. Quarto (10-1/4" x 7-1/2"). Yellow & black dust jacket with color illustration on front panel, over green cloth decorated & lettered in gilt. illustrated with 12 tipped-in color plates, mounted on butterscotch-yellow leaves, each with a printed tissue guard overleaf. D.j. with old soiling on spine and 3/4" chip at top edge of same.
Contents: My work and my workshop -- The sacred beetle -- The cicada -- The praying mantis -- The glow-worm -- A mason-wasp -- The psyches -- The self-denial of the Spanish copris -- Two strange grasshoppers -- Common wasps -- The adventures of a grub -- The cricket -- The sisyphus -- The capricorn -- Locusts -- The anthrax fly.
Contents: My work and my workshop -- The sacred beetle -- The cicada -- The praying mantis -- The glow-worm -- A mason-wasp -- The psyches -- The self-denial of the Spanish copris -- Two strange grasshoppers -- Common wasps -- The adventures of a grub -- The cricket -- The sisyphus -- The capricorn -- Locusts -- The anthrax fly.
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- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
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- Title
- Fabre's Book of Insects: Retold [by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell] from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques"
- Author
- Fabre, Jean Henri (text); E. J. Detmold (illustrator); Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (translator)
- Illustrator
- Detmold, E. J.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- Tudor Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- Insect behavior, class insecta
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