Isaac Pin Trimble (1804-1890) A Treatise of the Insect Enemies of Fruit and Fruit Trees. With numerous illustrations drawn from nature, by Hochstein, under the immediate supervision of the Author... The Circulio and the Apple Moth. New York: R.Craighead for ¨William Wood & Company, 1865. 4° (287 x 230mm). 11 lithographic plates, 1 hand-coloured, 10 tinted, by Hochstein. (Occasional spotting.) Original brown cloth, upper cover with the title and author's name blocked in gilt at centre with outer border blocked in blind, lower cover with the same design but blocked in blind (spine and extremities somewhat faded, head and foot of spine and lower outer corners rubbed). Provenance : Isaac W. Nicholson (printed name tag mounted on title). A delightful work by Dr. Trimble, full of information and practical advice, on the control of two pests that were threatening to decimate the fruit-tree population in the United States. With his dedication to the 'Farmers and Fruit Growers of Our Country', the author clearly had them in mind throughout the writing of this work. He notes in the introduction that it had been his wish 'to avoid the use of scientific terms, he has as far as possible confined himself to language that will be understood by all readers... The plates include a frontispiece that shows a plum, an apricot and a nectarine as they should be, with a life-size representation of the Ciculio beetle and a representation of the damage it can do. The following eight plates all relate to the Circulio beetle, with the seventh plate a fine tinted lithograph showing how the fruit tree can be 'jarred' to shake loose the 'insect enemy'. The second part of the work, on the apple and the codling moth, follows much the same method, the three plates ending with a tinted lithograph of a tree with a 'hay-rope band' designed to prevent the depradations of the moth. Bennett p.106; BM (NH) V, p.2139; Bradley III, p.186.
Isaac Pin Trimble (1804-1890) A Treatise of the Insect Enemies of Fruit and Fruit Trees. With numerous illustrations drawn from nature, by Hochstein, under the immediate supervision of the Author... The Circulio and the Apple Moth. New York: R.Craighead for ¨William Wood & Company, 1865. 4° (287 x 230mm). 11 lithographic plates, 1 hand-coloured, 10 tinted, by Hochstein. (Occasional spotting.) Original brown cloth, upper cover with the title and author's name blocked in gilt at centre with outer border blocked in blind, lower cover with the same design but blocked in blind (spine and extremities somewhat faded, head and foot of spine and lower outer corners rubbed). Provenance : Isaac W. Nicholson (printed name tag mounted on title). A delightful work by Dr. Trimble, full of information and practical advice, on the control of two pests that were threatening to decimate the fruit-tree population in the United States. With his dedication to the 'Farmers and Fruit Growers of Our Country', the author clearly had them in mind throughout the writing of this work. He notes in the introduction that it had been his wish 'to avoid the use of scientific terms, he has as far as possible confined himself to language that will be understood by all readers... The plates include a frontispiece that shows a plum, an apricot and a nectarine as they should be, with a life-size representation of the Ciculio beetle and a representation of the damage it can do. The following eight plates all relate to the Circulio beetle, with the seventh plate a fine tinted lithograph showing how the fruit tree can be 'jarred' to shake loose the 'insect enemy'. The second part of the work, on the apple and the codling moth, follows much the same method, the three plates ending with a tinted lithograph of a tree with a 'hay-rope band' designed to prevent the depradations of the moth. Bennett p.106; BM (NH) V, p.2139; Bradley III, p.186.
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