A Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria: With Notes on the Methods to be Adopted to Check and Extirpate Them (3 Volumes)

C. French

Melbourne

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Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer

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1893-1904

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22cm x 14.5cm. 163, [vi], 222, 229 pages, 3 volumes, illustrations, some colour. Purple (Parts I and III) and green (Part II) cloth, gilt lettering.

Prepared by order of the Victorian Department of Agriculture. Part I 1904, Part II 1893, Part III 1900. The first three of the five parts published between 1891 and 1911. FERGUSON 9770.

Cloth discoloured. Endpapers tanned, edges soiled. Part I front hinge cracked. Part II Ex-Beaufort Mechanics Institute and Free Library, edges of pages tanned. Part III foxed and some pages damaged. Parts I and II some offsetting but plates clean. Previous owners’ names. Stamp of bookseller, Lloyds, Brisbane. Fair Condition.