Bulletin 140, Entomological Series, 8. 17 pages; 4 plates; bilbiography. Concerned with infestation of white-flies in the production of tomatoes and cucumbers under glass. Covers the life history, habits, description, and remedies. Former owner's name in ink on cover 'Calvert E. Norland.' View More...
"Bulletin 315 (April 1930)". Pages 481-620; plates (15), illustrations, tables, maps; index; bound in grey paper wrapper (5 3/4 x 9 inch). annual report for the state entomologist for Connecticut which includes fiscal statement, pest control for insects, and abatement of mosquitoes, beetles, and moths. Clean copy with former owner's name on the cover and title page, Calvert E. Norland. View More...
"Bulletin 285 (February 1927)". Pages 161-283; plates (XVI), maps, tables; index; green paper wrapper. State report for pest control for Connecticut during 1926 and expenses incurred. Includes inspections of nurseries, control of foreign pests, and ongoing control of Asiatic Beetle, Mosquito control, fruit moth control, etc. 'Calbert E. Norland' name written on the front cover. Clean copy. View More...
Interesting Bulletin in the form of a calendar for the wall. Bulletin 271. Pages 93-140; illustrations. Folds out to hang on the wall with 1926-27 calendar along with the bulletin which contains directions for preparing insecticides and fungicides; insect and fungous pests of cultivated plants; listing of manufacturers and dealers in spray apparatus and supplies. A very handy and interesting information source. Former owners name in ink on the front cover "Calvert E. Norland." View More...
Reprinted from the 1915 edition. Farmers' Bulletin 675. 20 pages; illustrations, map; paper wrapper (5 3/4 x 9 inch). Examines character of injury, distribution, plant food, life history of the borer, natural enemies, methods of control. Very good clean copy. View More...
'Instructor, Literature Series - No. 93'. 32 pages; illustrations; illustrated yellow paper wrapper (5 x 7 1/4 inch). Fifth Grade Reader level. Everything one would like to know about silk worms. Good clean copy. View More...
Original publisher's blue cloth binding. 6 3/4" x 9 1/2." 465 pages, complete. Fourteen black and white plates, complete. Bibliography in the back. Beige card laid-in postmarked 1947 and addressed to Fred C. Hartman in Los Angeles. Black and gold-colored illustrated endpapers. Gilt lettering and decorations on front cover and spine but very faded. Top edge gilt but also very faded. Some pages unopened. Pages and covers are clean. Binding is tight. A natural history of California with descriptions of landscapes, wildlife, and flora. Woodblock illustrations of natural scenery by Ari... View More...
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, Vol. XXIII, No. 41, pp. 603-609. September 15, 1947. Unopened pages. Page edges uncut. Inked stamp imprint front cover. "From 1889 to November, 1894, expeditions of the California Academy of Sciences made collections of Odonata.totalling more than 3100 specimens. These were listed and described by me in two papers published in the Proceedings." ".the disastrous fire of 1906 destroyed, as I understand, all the Odonate material which I had returned to the Academy". "In view of the probability that students of the Odonata may have ... View More...
Original tan cloth showing an illustration of a bird on the front cover, gilt lettering on spine. 7 1/4 X 10 3/4 inches. 298 pages. From the colophon, "The Texas State Historical Association has published this facsimile reprint of John Cassin's Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America with a new introduction by Robert McCracken Peck, on 70 il. Paloma, an acid free paper in and edition of 1850 copies". Copy contains 50 color plates of different species of birds. All plates are fully intact. This is a very clean copy. Pages are very clean and complete.... View More...
Farmers' Bulletin 868. Illustrations. From the inside front cover: "This bulletin tells how to control the Colorado potato beetle and late-blight (the worst two enemies of the potato), blister beetles, flea-beetles, cutworms, and other caterpillars, leafhoppers, 'aphids' or plant-lice, early-blight, and other foliage diseases". View More...
# 2841 - From the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 77, Art. 18, pages 1-26, plate. Seperate in gray wrapper with former owner's stamp on cover "San Diego State College". A study of several collections of the genus Lixus inhabiting America north of Mexico, resulting in several species which the writer considers new, along with a few variants, which are all described. View More...
Original publisher's beige wrappers with staple binding. 7" x 10 1/2." Pages 214-226, complete. Eleven black and white reprinted photographs and one diagram by the author, complete. Signed by the author in black ink in the upper-right corner of the front cover: "Compliments of Frank C. Clarke." Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Dampstain in the lower-left corner of the front cover and lower-right corner of the back cover measuring about 1 1/2" x 1 3/4." The dampstaining barely affects the interior pages as an almost imperceptible stain and does not affect text. "Repri... View More...
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, Vol. XXIII, No. 5, pp. 83-84; 1 text figure. August 12, 1936. Report concerns a fossil bird cranium from the Academy's collection. Located in the area eleven miles north of Bakersfield, Kern County, California. The author notes: "This cranium is that of a gannet and it agrees with those characters of the gannets which separate the latter from the boobies". View More...
Cloth. Illustrations. Some white spots front cover. Some water stain back cover. Wear to cover edges. Water stain to edges of several pages. Tear at spine pages 67-78. The author writes about: The Egg, Larva, Pupa and Imago State; Internal Anatomy of Insects; The Seven Orders of Insects; Classification of Insects into Families; Scale Insects; Collecting and Preserving Insects; etc. View More...
Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. From the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. XXV, pages 83-126. [No. 1280.] Some unopened pages. Uncut pages. From the first page (page 83): "The present paper is based primarily on a series of specimens collected by Mr. H. S. Barber, who, as assistant to Mr. E. A. Schwarz, accompanied the latter on a collecting trip to portions of New Mexico and Arizona during the past summer. The object of this expedition was to obtain specimens of Coleoptera, and the collecting of the Diptera was therefore a digression from the real ... View More...
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, Vol. XXIII, No. 17, pp. 255-261. September 1, 1938. Unopened pages. "In certain instances the species is well known, but has not been recorded previously from Chiriqui; in other cases the species itself is rare throughout its range, and the existence of museum representatives is of interest; and other species have been included in the appended list because the elevation at which the individual was taken is worthy of note". Xiphorhynchus guttatus marginatus, Griscom; Leptopogon amaurocephalus faustus, Bangs; Capsiempis flaveola s... View More...
'Technical Bulletin No. 231 (January 1931)'. 59 pages; figures, maps; bibliography; yellow paper wrapper (5 7/8 x 9 1/8 inch). Evidence of a vertical fold, former owner's name on the cover. A examination of Empoasca (leaf hoppers) in North America and its economic impact on the crops cultivated. Very good clean copy. View More...
Bulletin No. 343. Pages 399-424; illustrations; wrapper. Former owners stamp on cover 'San Diego State College' and an ink number 17. Covers the protection and insects that pray on cheese. From skippers to mites. View More...
circa.1890s. [Written in French] 180 pages; supplement drawings; illustrations; 1/4 vellum binding on the spine with leather label. Concerned with beekeeping and the proper care and housing for them. A handsome book. View More...
