[Rarebooks] FS: Trimble's Treatise on the Insect Enemies of Fruit Trees, 1865

[Charles Agvent]

TRIMBLE,  Isaac.  A TREATISE ON THE INSECT ENEMIES  OF  FRUIT  AND
FRUIT  TREES.  WITH  NUMEROUS  ILLUSTRATIONS  DRAWN  FROM  NATURE,  BY
HOCHSTEIN....  New  York:  William Wood 1865.  First  Edition.  Quarto
(8-3/4"  x  11-1/4") bound in original brown cloth  recently  rebacked
with   black  grained  cloth.  [4],   xiv-xviii,  [1],  20-139  pages.
Illustrated  with  11  lithographed plates, one hand-colored  and  two
tinted.  This  title is listed in Whitman Bennett's book  on  American
color  plate  books (p. 106), but this copy is not colored except  for
the  frontispiece. Hedrick, A HISTORY OF HORTICULTURE IN AMERICA: "The
plates  are  rather  horrifying  examples of  all  the  problems  from
insects  which faced the fruit grower" (p. 529). Dampstaining to cloth
and  margins of many text pages and plates, heaviest to the title page
and  frontispiece.  Good,  used  copy of  this  practical  manual  for
orchardists.                                                   $250.00

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