Life Fly Interspersed Chapters Autobiography by Fabre Henri (69 results)

Hardcover. pp. 318. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardcover. Translated by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos. Writing on front endpaper. Hinge cracked. Text clean. Corners rubbed and bent. Spine ends rubbed and bumped. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. XI, 50 pages, original green cloth, battered, chipped, rubbed, essentially a reading copy. Several varieties of flies, their life-cycles and behaviours. From the eminent French naturalist and entomologist. Translated from the original French by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Natural History & Resources; Inventory No: 0211747.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Translated from the French by Alexander Teixeira de Matos. First edition thus. Moderate shelf wear and aging, else very good in brown cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. No DJ. Rub and wear to the cover. Tanned edge paper. Has inscription inside. Light foxing. B49.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Fabre, J. Henri. The life of the fly, with which are interspersed some Chapters of Autobiography / translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1913. The Works of J. H. Fabre. Hardback, VG, no dustjacket. Green cloth, slightly bumped to corners with minor damage and fraying to top/base of spine; gilt decoration and lettering to front and spine. Binding strong. Some foxing to edges of outer pages. Title page in black and red. xi, 508pp. Foxing to edges of page block; contents clean and bright. Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (21 December 1823 11 October 1915) was a French naturalist, entomologist, and author known for the lively style of his popular books on the lives of insects. He is considered by many to be the father of modern entomology. Much of his enduring popularity is due to his marvellous teaching ability and his manner of writing about the lives of insects in biographical form, which he preferred to a clinically detached, journalistic mode of recording. In the English speaking world, he became known through the extensive translations of his work by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, carried out from 1912 to 1922. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1915 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 488 Language: English Pages: 488.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1919 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 488 Language: English Pages: 488.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1913 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 493 Language: English Pages: 493.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1913 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 492 Language: English.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 487.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 487.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 12mo. Full blue cloth. 318 pp. Light bumping to spine ends, a few spots of rubbing, else fine.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1913 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 528 Language: English Pages: 528.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Reprint of the First Edition in En. The People's Library. No date. Circa 1920s. (Copyright date 1913 on the publisher's prelims page). First reprint of the first edition in English. ***Very good in blue cloth-covered boards with black titles and rules to spine. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Tiny, navy printed and white contemporaneous bookseller's book label to bottom of front pastedown: ' B. H. Blackwell ltd Booksellers 50 and 51 Broad Street, Oxford'. Contemporaneous date 'March 1928' in soft pencil to front free endpaper and tiny number written in ink to top of front free endpaper. Offsetting to front and rear free endpapers. Owner's name in black fountain pen ink: 'H.? Williams' to top of title-page. Tiny piece missing from bottom corner of title-page. Edges of text-block lightly foxed. Interior pages clean. No dustwrapper. 176mm x 124mm. 318 pages including index to rear. ***Contents: Translator's note; Chapters: The Harmas; The Anthrax; Another Prober (Perforator); Larval Dimorphism; Heredity; My Schooling; The Pond; The Caddis Worm; The Greenbottles; The Grey Flesh-Flies; The Bumble-bee Fly; Mathematical Memories: Newton's Binomial Theorem; Mathematical Memories: My Little Table; The Bluebottle: The Laying; The Bluebottle: The Grub; A Parasite of the Maggot; Recollections of Childhood; Insects and Mushrooms; A Memorable Lesson; Industrial Chemistry. ***'I take leave of the mushrooms with regret: there would be so many other questions to solve concerning them! Why do the maggots eat the Satanic boletus and scorn the imperial mushroom? How is it that they find delicious what we find poisonous, and why is it that what seems exquisite to our taste is loathsome to theirs? Can there be special compounds in mushrooms, alkaloids, apparently, which vary according to the biological genus?' (quote from page 281, chapter XIX: A Memorable Lesson) ***Fabre's Souvenirs Entomologiques is a series of texts on insects and arachnids, of which this book is one. He influenced the later writings of Charles Darwin, who called Fabre "an inimitable observer". Fabre wrote in a relaxed, biographical style, and as such are very readable as well as scientific. A classic entomology title. ***First reprint of the first edition in English in its original cloth-covered boards. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First American Edition, First Printing. 477 Pp. First Printing With 1913 Date On Title Page. Brown Cloth, Gilt, Top Edge Gilt. Slight Rubbing At Corners, Near Fine, No Marks.

1st edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Boards dust-toned. Some foxing to spine cover. Scattered foxing internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; xii, 508 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects; Flies. Souvenirs entomologiques. Diptera. Mouches. Diptères. Diptera. Bees. Entomology. Flies Behavior. Biographies. Insecta Diptera Biology. Behaviour Ecology. Collection of essays. Fabre, Jean-Henri 1823-1915. 1 Kg.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: New. In.

1st edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Boards dust-toned. Some foxing to spine cover. Scattered foxing internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; xii, 508 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects; Flies. Souvenirs entomologiques. Diptera. Mouches. Diptères. Diptera. Bees. Entomology. Flies Behavior. Biographies. Insecta Diptera Biology. Behaviour Ecology. Collection of essays. Fabre, Jean-Henri 1823-1915. 1 Kg.

Octavo,508 pp.,publisher's cloth.

First edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, and front panel lettered and decorated in gilt. Edges and endpapers slightly foxed, fly-leaf professionally restored, one corner of the boards bumped, o/w very good in an added clear archival jacket for this copy. A handsome copy of a seminal work of the great French entomologist (1823-1915).

Condition: New. In.

14x20, 508 Seiten, Leinen,

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 478 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.08 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. All of Fabre's essays on Diptera, in his usual chatty but factual style; with autobiographical and mathematical essays added to bring the volume up to the standard size of other volumes in Fabre's collected works, as published by Dodd. First American edition (first printing), with same date (1913) on title & copyright pages; the jacket, however, is a later issue, after 1922, with Detmold's famous dung beetle illustration, first published in 1921. The book itself also has more wear than you'd expect from a book constantly in a jacket. So either the original owner 'improved' it at some point, or, more likely, a publisher's rep came around bookstores swapping out the old plain jackets for ones with the sexy Detmold art from their new book, to improve sales of both. Further, the back of the jacket lists the complete Works, which Teixeira did not complete translating until 1922, and it notes the list price as $2.00, while earlier printings have a jacket price of $1.50 or $1.75. Hardcover, full brown cloth, gilt titling. Light wear to book, corners rubbed, dent to top edge of front cover; jacket lightly rubbed with short tears, minor discoloration to lower spine where a small label was removed, tape stains inside jacket at the head of the spine, showing through a little; large book plate of Milwaukee Red Cross Major Edouard de Surentin inside front cover; stain to margins of pages 130/131, affecting adjacent pages. Text otherwise clean; 477 pages; index. Size: Duodecimo.