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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Hardback. A Manual of Injurious Insects. Message to previous owner crossed out to inside cover. Browning to end inside covers. Slight wear to corners of cloth. Slightly sunned spine to cloth. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. The object of the present volume, of which the First Edition was publuished in 1881, is to give, in short and plain form, some account of the insects that are commonly injurious to our food crops, forest trees, and fruit, together with methods of treatment that have been found serviceable in preventing attacks, or in averting serious damage. Contents: Introductory Preface. Food Crops and Insects That Injure Them. Forest Trees and Insects That Injure Them. Fruit Crops and Insects That Injure Them. List of Insects of Which Observations Are Given, Alphabeticallly Arranged. Introduction to Entomology. Glossary of Entomoligical Terms. List of Names of Contributors to First Edition of Manual. Index. 410 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…