The Works of J. H. Fabre : The Life of The Fly : with which are interspersed some Chapter of Autobiography / by J. Henri Fabre : translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
1913, First Collated Edition. London, New York, Toronto : Hodder and Stoughton. Provenance: Bookplate of Alan Thornton Witney. Very good copy in the original decorated gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Foxing to prelims. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #402625
Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description; 508 pages, 20 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographic footnotes and index. "The present volume contains all the essays on flies of Diptera, from the Souvenirs entomologiques, to which I have added, in order to make the dimensions uniform with those of the series, the purely autobiographic essays comprised in the souvenirs"- Translators's note. Subjects; Fabre, Jean-Henri 1823-1915. Flies. Diptera. Mouches. Bees. Entomology. Flies Behavior. Biographies. Insecta Diptera Biology Behaviour Ecology Collection of essays.
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