Excerpt from Fabre's Book of Insects: Retold From Alexander Teixeira De Mattos Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques" From my earliest childhood I have felt drawn towards the things of Nature. It would be ridiculous to suppose that this gift, this love of observing plants and insects, was inherited from my ancestors, who were uneducated people of the soil and observed little but their own cows and sheep. Of my four grandparents only one ever opened a book, and even he was very uncertain about his spelling. Nor ...
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Excerpt from Fabre's Book of Insects: Retold From Alexander Teixeira De Mattos Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques" From my earliest childhood I have felt drawn towards the things of Nature. It would be ridiculous to suppose that this gift, this love of observing plants and insects, was inherited from my ancestors, who were uneducated people of the soil and observed little but their own cows and sheep. Of my four grandparents only one ever opened a book, and even he was very uncertain about his spelling. Nor do I owe anything to a scientific training. Without masters, without guides, often without books, I have gone forward with one aim always before me: to add a few pages to the history of insects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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near very good condition in blue cloth with some wear and a few spots on the cover inclding the front paste down-no duat jacket-there is a bit of spine sunning and pen names on the free front end page-shipping via USPS. 4 plates by E. J. Detmold.
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Very Good jacket. Minor shelf/age wear, protected in cardboard case. Wear to case. Jacket VG. Pages/boards/jacket clean. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
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New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1936
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English
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18053817465
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Third printing of this edition (hardback). 8vo (26cm by 20cm), [ix], 271pp. 12 colour plates by E J Detmold. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. The binding is a little blotchy, there is some foxing to the endpapers and the edges of the text block, and a gift inscription; overall, the book is in good plus condition. The dustwrapper and presentation box are both present with this copy, but both the box and the dustwrapper are in scruffy condition.
