[Rarebooks] F/S Asa Fitch Vintage Entomology 1845-1865 Pamphlet Lot

[Garry R Austin]

We offer this collection of Asa Fitch material as a lot postpaid @$250.00 in the US. All are described below, 10 items in original wrappers and one bound in cloth. Most are not available on the internet databases.

Dr. Asa Fitch (1809-1879) was a natural historian and entomologist from Salem, New York. His early studies were of both natural history and medicine, which he studied at the newly formed Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, graduating in 1827. However, in 1838 he decided to start studying agriculture and entomology. In 1838 he began to collect and study insects for New York state. In 1854 he became the first professional entomologist of New York State Agricultural Society (commissioned by the State of New York). This made him the first occupational entomologist in the United States. His vast studies of many insects helped scientists to solve some of the problems of crop damage caused by insects. Many of his notebooks are now the property of the Smithsonian Institution. Fitch also discovered the Rodent Botfly Cuterebra emasculator in 1856. He died April 8, 1879 in Salem, New York.

Fitch, Asa. An Essay Upon The Wheat-Fly; And Some Species Allied To It. Albany: Carroll and Cook, 1845. From The American Quarterly Journal of Agriculture and Science; Octavo; pp. 32;  Color frontispiece, plus a description of the plate; original printed string tied self wrappers; Very good. 

Fitch, Asa. The Hessian Fly; Its History, Character, Transformations, And Habits. Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, 1847. As published in the Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society, Vol, VI; Octavo; pp. 60 plus a description of the plate, (i); Frontispiece; original printed string tied blue paper wrappers; Very good. 

Fitch, Asa. The American Currant Moth, (Abraxas? Ribearia). Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, 1848. Originally published in the Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society, Vol, VII; Octavo; pp. 11, (i); Color frontispiece; original printed string tied yellow paper wrappers; Very good or better. 

Fitch, Asa. Catalogue With References and Descriptions of the Insects Collected and Arranged for the State Cabinet of Natural History. Albany: No Publisher, 1851. Octavo; pp. (ii), 46-69; original string tied wrappers; Very good.

Fitch, Asa. Apple Tree Pests. Salem NY: From Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society, 1853. Off print; Octavo; pp. 16; original string tied self wrappers; Very good. 

Fitch, Asa. Winter Insects Of Eastern New York. Np: No publisher, No date, c1855. Off print; Octavo; pp. 11; original string tied self wrappers; Very good. Most probably from Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society.

Fitch, Asa. State Of New York No. 151 In Assembly, April 3, 1855, Report Of Asa Fitch, M. D. on the Noxious, Beneficial, and Other Insects of the State Of New York. (Albany): No Publisher, 1855. Octavo; pp. 180 with index; woodcuts; original printed string tied self wrappers; Very good. This is the First Report to the State.

Fitch, Asa. First And Second Report On The Noxious, Beneficial, and Other Insects of the State Of New York. Made To The State Agricultural Society... Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, 1856. Octavo; pp. (ii), 336 with index; Three lithographic insect frontispiece plates, and woodcuts; embossed black cloth, gilt; wear and chipping at spine ends; Previous owner's name on the front free fly leaf; Presentation orange bookplate from B. P. Johnson Secretary of the New York State Agricultural Society. Very good.

Fitch, Asa. The Most Pernicious Species of United States Insects and the Curculio,  Two Addresses delivered at the Annual Meetings of the New York State Agricultural Society, A. D. 1859 and 1860. Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, 1860. First edition; Octavo; pp. 28 with drawings; original printed string tied yellow paper wrappers; Very good or better. 

Fitch, Asa. A Brief Account Of The Most Important Injurious Insects Of The United States. Albany: Luther Tucker & Son, 1863. First edition; Octavo; pp. (iv), 293-321 with drawings; original printed green string tied paper wrappers; Very good or better. From The Illustrated Annual Register Of Rural Affairs. 

Fitch, Asa. Report of Dr Fitch On The Noxious And Other Insects Detrimental To Agriculture. Also An Address Delivered Before The New York State Agricultural Society. Albany: C. Wendell, Legislative Printer, 1865. First edition; Octavo; pp. 56; Frontispiece and drawings; original printed blue string tied paper wrappers; Very good or better. From The Illustrated Annual Register Of Rural Affairs. 








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