First and Second Report On the Noxious, Beneficial and Other Insects Of the State Of New York

New York State Legislature, Albany, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Black blind stamped cloth over boards, four b& w insect plates before… Read more about this item

Albany, NY: C. Van Benthuysen, Printer to the Legislature, 1856. Hardcover. Very good. 336 pp, with 4 plates, index. Original cloth boards show moderate general wear; endpapers foxed, ownership markings on flyleaf, text clean and binding sound. Fitch was a natural historian and entomologist whose extensive studies helped scientists to solve some of the problems of crop damage… Read more about this item

Bookplate, and light foxing with light edge wear, but a near fine bright copy. The author was a physician and entomologist for the State of New York. "Fitch's appointment gave official recognition to applied entomology, and represented the first great practical step taken in the United States to investigate the problem of insect damage". With four full plates, and scattered… Read more about this item

Albany, NY: C. Van Benthuysen. Very good condition-cover soiled, some foxing, owner's name/No Dustjacket. 1856. 8vo., 336 pp. .

1856. New York State Legislature. 8vo. Hardcover. First edition. Good. Binding is tight and contents are clean. This is a personal ex-library copy with no markings except a small hand-written sticker on the spine. The spine ends are worn. Solid working copy. (L)

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

New.