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Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: . . . . Third Edition. 8vo, hardcover, no dj. Fair condition. Quarter-leather binding, boards cracked at spine, binding still holding. Rear panel partially rubbed bare. Contents moisture-rippled from old exposure, not affecting useability. Gift inscription on front endpaper. 8 color plates, all present, with moisture tide-marks around edges, extending slightly into images around margins. Sounds worse than it is. 640 pp.
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$62.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 640 pages. Hardcover. Related pamphlet laid-in. Black & white illustrations. 8 color plates supervised by Professor Agassiz. Chunk of cloth missing from bottom of spine, otherwise VG. Dark green textured cloth with bright gold insect designs on covers and spine. Agriculture Library bookplate on front paste-down. Clean, tight copy. Record # 67788
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xi, 640, 8 hand-col plates, text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gt, rebacked retaining the orig. backstrip, wear to extremities. 3rd edition. The first edition of 1841 was unillustrated. This edition, published posthumously, was illustrated under the supervision of Louis Agassiz. The introduction by Charles L. Flint provides a detailed acknowledgement of the various artists involved, the drawings for the eight steel plates were made by Antoine Sonrel and those for the many wood-cuts by Sonrel and J. Burckhardt. The engraving and colouring of the steel plates was carried out by John H. Richard and the engraving on wood by Henry Marsh. This ground breaking work is considered a classic of early American zoological literature.
Seller: PEMBERLEY NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS BA, ABA, Iver, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine ends and cloth hinges worn but sound. ; tall 8vo; viii, 513 pages; Publisher's binding with cloth spine with paper label, printed wraps, index. **Grace Bancroft Whitaker's copy.
Seller: Janet & Henry Hurley, Westmoreland, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good in raised black cloth boards with gold decoration of spine lettering; no dust jacket as issued. Updated edition of the 1841 edition with new specimens & drawings. Illustrated with B&W line drawings & color plates. Entymology, Zoology, Butterflies
Seller: Nightingale Books, stoughton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: Third, and best, Edition, with the color plates. 8vo, original black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, and gilt decoration on center of front cover, and blind stamped decoration on front and rear cover. Illustrated with 8 color plates. A few signatures partially sprung, spine ends bumped with minor loss of cloth binding. Minor foxing to plates. Good condition. No dust jacket. 640 pages.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$93.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston, William White, Printer to the State, 1862. Harris, Thaddeus William. A Treatise on Some of the Insects Injurious to Vegetation. Third Edition. Good. 4to, oringinal brown cloth, blind-stamped covers & spine. Gilt vignette of insects and vegetation center of front cover, spine gilt. There are 8 full page, steel engraved plates in full color; 278 smaller wood engraved figures. Tissue guarded Frontis shows some transfer whcih has bled over to title pageMinor traces of wear, spine ends and corners, else VG. Though a third edition, first with plates. xi, 640, The first edition of 1841 was unillustrated. This edition, published posthumously, was illustrated under the supervision of Louis Agassiz. The introduction by Charles L. Flint provides a detailed acknowledgement of the various artists involved, the drawings for the eight steel plates were made by Antoine Sonrel and those for the many wood-cuts by Sonrel and J. Burckhardt. The engraving and coloring of the steel plates was carried out by John H. Richard and the engraving on wood by Henry Marsh. A classic of early American zoological literature. There are two gift inscriptions in neat ink script on ffl. The first is to Mrs. Vaeilette Hitchcock from what appears to be a Richardson in March 1868 at Boston; the second is from Vaeilette to my beloved son Edward K. Hitchcock at Strong, Maine in 1878. The Hitchcock family correspondence is available at the Clements Library, University of Michigan.
Seller: Douglas Park Media, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Description: , xi, 640 pages, complete with 8 colour plates including tissue-guarded frontispiece and black and white illustrations throughout text Third Edition , binding firm, some small scuffs and marks to covers, unrelated gift letter from owner is stuck down to the front free endpaper, owner's inscription on front blank, few light spots on some plates but illustrations are nice and clean, text clean, book in good+ condition , full tan calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, marbled edges and endpapers 23.5 x 16 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: third edition textblock near fine; embossed cloth binding with device of insects in gold on front cover; condition good and tight but with wear at extremities and top of spine rough; 639 pages; eight coloured engraved plates and many illustrations in text; index; quite a nice item for the specialist collector;
Seller: Book Den East, oak bluffs, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New Edition, Enlarged and Improved, with Additions from the Author's Manuscripts and Original Notes. Hardcover. The insects examined in this 1862 treatise by influential entomologist and Harvard librarian Thaddeus William Harris (1795-1856) may be "injurious to vegetation," but they certainly do grace the 8 gorgeously colored chromolithographic plates inside these strikingly gilt-stamped boards, joined by a swarm of 278 figures, engravings drawn from nature under the supervision of the great Louis Agassiz. 8 1/2" X 6". xi, 640pp, plus two pages of publisher's ads. Bound in full emerald coarse wave grain cloth over bevelled boards, with large moth stamped in gilt to both boards, spine lettered in kind with spotted Pelidnota in gilt to tail. Moderate wear to binding, with small tears to edges and extremities, particularly at head and tail of spine, scattered rubbing, including to gilt, and light dust soiling to cloth. All edges red. Both inner hinges have cracked and have been reinforced with archival adhesive, with some tears visible to gutters of endpapers. Name of Paul L. Rice, "Agr. Exp. Station" in pencil to front free endpaper. Small crease turning to neat tear to upper margin of Plate IV, with large open tear to facing tissue-guard. Strong off-setting to tissue-guards and pages following from color plates, and occasional spot of foxing or light toning, else pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated in 8 chromolithographic plates and 278 black and white figures. New Edition, Enlarged and Improved, with Additions from the Author's Manuscripts and Original Notes.
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA, Carrollton, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The third edition , 1862 , Boston. A very good+ bright book in the original binding. Wear to the spine top and lower edges. Some general light wear to the binding. With clean covers and contents excellent. Contains the required number of plates and is a excellent work on the subject. With 8 hand colored plates of the subject of the book.
Seller: Somewhere In Time Books, St. James, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: xi, 640 pages of text including an index. Hardcover bound in the original blind stamped black cloth with gilt decoration; re-backed using original spine, with edges rubbed. Complete with the eight hand-colored plates, and profusely illustrated with black & white engravings by Antoine Sontel, Jacques Burkhardt (died 1867), John H. Richard and Henry Marsh, supervised by Louis Agassiz (1807-1873). Contains an explanation of plates. This edition edited by Charles Louis Flint (1824-1889). This work was first published without illustrations at Cambridge 1841. Measures 23.7cm in height. Natural history, Insects. Size: Octavo (8vo)
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Small Quarto. xi, 640pp., 8 plates, incl. frontispiece. Original pebbled cloth with gilt-stamped vignette on cover, and blind-stamped decor and ruling on covers; gilt lettering on spine, protected by modern mylar. Yellow endpapers. Frontispiece chromolithograph with tissue guard. New edition with suitable additions and illustrations. The first edition was printed in 1841. Scientific report prepared and published the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of Massachusetts, on the order of the General Court, and at the expense of the State (1827). Illustrated with eight finely hand colored plates of domestic insects and b/w woodcuts in text. The drawings for the steel plates were made by Mr. Antoine Sonrel, those for the woodcuts by Sonrel and J. Burckhardt. Engraving and coloring of the steel plates by John H. Richard, the engraving on wood by Henry Marsh. The printing was done by Welch, Bigelow, & Co. of the University Press, Cambridge. Binding with light wear along edges, small chips, predominantly at head and tail of spine. Illustrated book plate of the Agricultural Society on inside front cover. Some offsetting of frontispiece to pages on both sides, Light offsetting of chromolithographic plates to facing pages. Binding in overall good-, interior in good, plates in very good condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$288.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8 color plates. Bound in publisher's original brown textured cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in blind and gilt and the rear cover stamped in blind. Some damp stains to the bottom edge not effecting the text. Minor chips to the head and heel of the spine. Previous owner's library stamp and catalogue number on the front free endpapaer and title page.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$659.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1862 third edition ownership ink to title page. Gilt decorated blind stamped boards, color and black and white plates hinges strong but a few gatherings are intact but tender. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$780.00 + shipping
Description: 237 x 152 mm. (9 1/4 x 6"). xi, [1], 640 pp. Publisher's brown cloth decorated in gilt and blind, upper cover with oval ornament composed of insects and vegetation, smooth spine with gilt titling. With numerous black & white illustrations in the text, five of these full-page, and EIGHT COLOR PLATES depicting a total of 107 insects. Front pastedown with blank engraved award certificate for a county fair exhibition in the 1860s. Sabin 30524. âOne corner gently bumped, gilt lettering on spine a little discolored, occasional faint offsetting, but A VERY FINE COPY WITH NO SIGNS OF USE and few signs of age. Written by a Harvard librarian and leading American entomologist, this is an outstanding copy of one of the most important treatises on pest control in agriculture printed in the 19th century. Thaddeus William Harris (1795-1856) trained as a medical doctor but gave up the profession to become librarian at Harvard University, where he introduced one of the first card catalogue systems and increased the University's holdings from 30,000 to 65,000 over the course of his tenure. Though diligent in this work, Harris' real passion was for entomology; his spare time was devoted to the study of insects, and he eventually acquired nearly 10,000 specimens--in its day, a collection considered the finest in the United States. Sometimes overshadowed by contemporaries like naturalist Asa Grey (who was given a Harvard professorship over Harris) and fellow entomologist Thomas Say, Harris' work was nonetheless pivotal in the development of the study of insects, and he was deemed "the greatest entomologist in the world" by the brilliant zoologist and fellow Harvardian, Louis Agassiz. The present work first appeared in a report for the Massachusetts Commission on the Zoological and Botanical Survey in 1841, and printed separately in 1842 under the title "A Treatise on Some of the Insects of New England, Which Are Injurious to Vegetation." Eschewing language that was too technical, Harris' writing is notable for the straightforward, easy to follow descriptions that would have appealed to an audience outside the ivory tower. According to ANB, "Harris' reputation rests largely on this work, and through its influence he is credited with founding practical or economic entomology, emphasizing the control of insect pests in the United States. At the end of the century it still was considered an essential manual for entomologists of the Northeast." This third edition introduces several lovely hand-colored plates, enriching the text and offering a distinct advantage over earlier editions. Ours is as clean and attractive a copy as one can hope to find, with none of the wear one usually finds on publisher's bindings of this period.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.