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Leaf-hoppers Injurious to Apple Trees

By: Lathrop, F. H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Geneva, New York, Department of Agriculture: 1918

Seller ID: 016731

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

New York Agricultural Extension Service, Bulletin No. 451. Staple bound booklet, paper wrapper. Previous owner's signature on front, otherwise very good condition. 6 pages with 12 illustrations. Report on the life cycles and control of leaf hoppers in apple orchards.
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Insects Affecting Stored Food Products.

By: Linsley, E.G., And A.E. Michelbacher.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, Calif, University of California, College of Agriculture: 1943

Seller ID: 9765

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Bulletin 676. 44 pages; illustrations; wrapper. Covers the pests that attack stored food products and methods to control them. Former owner's name on the top of front cover 'Calvert E. Norland'.
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Carrier-Pigeons of Santa Catalina

By: Lockwood, DeWitt

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, St. Nicholas Magazine: 1895

Seller ID: 015546

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Excerpt from the September, 1895, issues of St. Nicholas Magazine in cardstock folder. Some discoloration of folder. Magazine pages are held together along spines with tape. Label on front of folder from Dellquest's Rare Books, Los Angeles, California. 8 pages with 6 illustrations.
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The Stalk Borer : Life History in New Hampshire, 1925-1926

By: Lowry, P. R.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Durham, New Hampshire, The University of New Hampshire: 1927

Seller ID: 016723

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, Technical Bulletin 34. Staple bound booklet, paper wrapper. Minor bending at corners, otherwise remarkably good condition. 23 pages with one chart and 8 tables. A study of the life cycle of the Stalk Borer, a moth whose larvae feed on corn stalks and large stemmed plants.
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Elementos De Zoologia Geral E Descriptiva De Accordo Com A Fauna Brasileira

By: Maciel, Maximino

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Livraria Garnier. (1922). Rio De Janeiro.: 1922

Seller ID: 2492

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

First edition. Cloth backed imprinted boards; paper covering on boards torn on cover front edge. Illustrations. Ink notation on front end paper. In Portuguese, the book describes life including protoplasm, cells, muscles, skeletal structure, the huma n body, the amoeba, worms, insects, crustaceans, reptiles, birds, fish, rodents, carnivores, etc.
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Notes on Some American Diptera of the Genus Fannia, with Descriptions of New Species.

By: Malloch, J.R.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., Govenment Printing Office: 1913

Seller ID: 9867

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Reprint from PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 44. Pages 621-631, plate. Title describes it all.
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The North American Species of the Genus Tiphia (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) in the Collection of the Illinois State Natural History Survey.

By: Malloch, J.R.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Urbana, Illinois, State of Illinois.: 1918

Seller ID: 9877

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Bulletin XIII (Article I). 24 pages; plate. Covers the species, life cycle, and description of. Former owner's signature on the cover "Calvert E. Norland."
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Some Stages in the Spermatogenesis of the Honey Bee.

By: Mark, E.L., And Manton Copeland

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: 1906

Seller ID: 13574

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

'Contributions from the Zoological Laboratory, No. 179'. From the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, XLII, No. 5. Pages 103-111, bibliography; plate; gray paper wrapper (6 1/8 x 9 3/4 inch). Former owner's name on the cover. Very good clean copy.
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House Ants, Kinds and Methods of Control.

By: Marlatt, C.L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., Department of Agriculture: 1930

Seller ID: 9763

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Farmers' Bulletin 740. 14 pages; illustrations; wrapper (6 x 9 1/2 inch). Various methods of controlling the spread of ants in the house.
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Some Birds of the Countryside; The Art of Nature

By: Massingham, H. J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company. (Circa 1925). New York.:

Seller ID: 2466

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Cloth. Page sides and bottoms are uncut. Sun fading to spine. The author writes about birds in the areas of South Wales, the Flats (Northeast coast of Norfolk), London, Dorset and Hampshire. He also writes of Charles Waterton, "the owner of a la rge estate (Walton Hall) near Wakefield, where he had a bird-sanctuary, stocked with many an ornithological rarity".
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Happy : the Life of a Bee

By: McCaleb, Walter Flavius

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York and London, Harper & Brothers: 1917

Seller ID: 15009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Publisher's green cloth binding, gild lettering on front cover and spine. Illustration opposite title page and at beginning of every chapter, 19 chapters in all. 120 pages. The author, a long time beekeeper in the Rio Grande area, imagines the life of a bee from the bee's point of view.
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The Quail of California (Game Bulletin, No. 2)

By: McLean, Donald; Roke, E. C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sacramento, CA, California State Printing Office: 1930

Seller ID: 019774

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Original publisher's gray wrapper. 6" x 9." Forty-seven pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, reprinted photographs, and fold-out maps. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Faint vertical fold line on the front cover. Descriptions, data, and statistics of different quail species in California. Maps also include various information such as the range of the Painted and Mountain Quail, the movements of the different quail species in California, and quail population numbers.
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Bird Life in an Arctic Spring

By: Meinertzhagen, Dan and R.P. Hornby

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, R.H. Porter: 1899

Seller ID: 14924

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and illustration of bird on front cover. Illustrated by Meinertzhagen. Diary of a trip to northern Finland in 1897. Published, according to the preface by Meinertzhagen's father, in a small edition for family and friends, with a few extra copies for the general public. 150 of text, 27 pages of illustrations and a three page index.
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The Bird

By: Michelet, Jules; E., A. (Translator)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, England, T. Nelson and Sons: 1869

Seller ID: 020801

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Contemporary red leather binding with beautiful gilt border decorations on front and back covers. Gilt lettering and decorations on spine. Raised band. All edges gilt. 6 3/4" x 10." 340 pages, complete. 210 black and white illustrations, complete. Former ownership inscription in blue ink on a front flyleaf: "Carrie's[?] Christmas 1868, From Ovando[?]." Introduction in the front; Illustrative Notes in the back. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Front hinge slightly worn. A Fine copy. This book is replete with beautiful illustrations of b...
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A Sawfly Injurious to Young Pines.

By: Middleton, William

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington, DC, U. S. Department of Agriculture: 1922

Seller ID: 12582

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Farmers' Bulletin 1259. 11 pages; illustrations, maps; illustrated paper wrapper. An examination of the role that Leconte's Sawfly plays in the destruction of young pines. Minor marks on the cover, else clean inside.
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Little Brothers of the Air

By: Miller, Olive Thorne

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1892

Seller ID: 016837

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering. Former owner's bookplate and name written on front end papers. Handwritten number on title page. A nice, clean copy both in and out. From the "Introductory": "Some of the chapters of this little book were written in 1888 on the shore of the Great South Bay, Long Island; others in the north part of New York State, known to its residents as the 'Black River Country' a year or two later." 271 pages, including index, plus four page publisher's advertisement for other books at end. Date of 1892 on title page, matching the copyright date.
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Cours Elementaire D'histoire Naturelle a L'usage Des Lycees, Colleges, Seminaires et Maisons D'education. [bound with] Mineralogie. Par M.F.-S. Beudant. Dix-Septieme Edition.

By: Milne-Edwards, A. De Jussieu et F.S. Beudant.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Paris, France, Garnier Freres & Victor Masson: 1886

Seller ID: 12506

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Two volumes in one. x, 295 pages; figures; index. xii, 348 pages; drawings, figures, maps; index. Quarter velum binding with leather spine label. The first part is a study of mineralogy and the second part is about natural history in all fields. Fine clean copy.
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University of California. Agricultural Experiment Station. Bulletin No. 71. The Use of Gases Against Scale Insects.

By: Morse, F. W.; Chapman, A. Scott

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Berkeley, CA?, University of California: 0

Seller ID: 020868

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

Original article printed on beige paper. No date, circa 1912. 6 1/2" x 10 1/4." One page (printed on one leaf), complete. Page folded into thirds vertically. Page is very clean and intact. An article reporting an experiment by the University of California Agricultural Experiment Station, which became UC Davis. The experiment tested the effectiveness of gases, such as "chlorine, sulphuretted hydrogen, ammonia, carbon bisulphide, carbon monoxide, carbonic acid, hydrocyanic acid, and carbolic acid vaporized by heat," in killing the white scale insect for agricultural applic...
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The Avocado: Its Insect Enemies and How to Combat Them.

By: Moznette, G.f.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington, DC, U. S. Department of Agriculture: 1922

Seller ID: 12584

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

"Farmers' Bulletin 1261". 31 pages; illustrations; illustrated paper wrapper. Government publication on the insect enemies of the Avocado and the various methods used to control the insect. Very good clean copy.
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A Revision of the Parasitic Wasps of the Genus Microbracon Occurring in America North of Mexico (cover title)

By: Muesebeck, C. F. W.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Washington, Smithsonian Institution: 1925

Seller ID: 3989

Binding: Illustrated Wrappers

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

No. 2580. -- From the proceedings of the United States National Museum Vol. 67, Art. 8, pp. 1 - 85, with pls. 1-2. Unopened pages. Uncut page edges. Ink notation and rubber stamp imprint on front cover. From page 1: Ashmead published the name Microbracon with the following description: "I proposed this new genus for the reception of those species in the genus Bracon having the recurrent vein joining the first submarginal cell between its middle and its apex, restricting the genus Bracon to those species having the recurrent vein interstitial with the first transverse cubital."
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