Fabre's Book of Insects: Retold [by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell] from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques"
de 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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- Título
- Fabre's Book of Insects: Retold [by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell] from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques"
- Autor
- Fabre, Jean Henri (text); E. J. Detmold (illustrator); Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (translator)
- Ilustrador
- Detmold, E. J.
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- very good -
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Later printing
- Editorial
- Tudor Publishing Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1939
- Palabras clave
- Insect behavior, class insecta
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