First edition. Hardcover in incised emerald green cloth with gilt figure of an insect on front cover and gilt lettering and two insect figures on the spine. A tight, bright, virtually as new example. xx + 670 pp. with systematic index, alphabetical index with over 700 full- and partial- page illustrations (the frontispiece apparently was omitted from the first printing). An exemplary example.

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Title: Insects At Home; being a Popular Account of All Those Insects Which Are Useful or Destructive.
Publisher: William Rutter, Philadelphia
Publication Date: 1873
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First edition.
Condition: fine

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