NY: The Century Company. Fair with no dust jacket; Boards worn and shaken, one plate loose, spine . and front hinge cracked, pages toned.. 1918. First American Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth with titles stamped in black on spine. Translated from the French by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and Bernard Miall. 20 black and white photograph reproductions. Index. A collection of natural history observations from Fabre's Provencal house and grounds, the Harmas, seen with Fabre and his daughters in the foreground of the frontispiece photo. Fabre discusses beetles, spiders, flies, caterpillars, grasshoppers and his unusual experiments with trussing up dead mice, moles, and birds and watching how insects and arachnids attempt to wrestle them free back to their lairs. His Harmas home is now a natural history museum. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 322 pages .

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Bookseller: Old Saratoga Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 36231
Title: The Wonders of Instinct
Author: Fabre, Jean Henri
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair with no dust jacket; Boards worn and shaken, one plate loose, spine and front hinge cracked, pages toned.
Edition: First American Edition
Publisher: The Century Company
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: 1918
Keywords: INSECTS, ENTOMOLOGY
Bookseller catalogs: Natural History;

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Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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