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    By C. B. Williams
    Trinidad   Government Printing Office
    10" by 6.5" ix [1], 11-170pp
    Illustrated throughout with plates and diagrams, this is a very scarce scientific report on the impact of froghopper insects on Trinidad's sugar cane crops.
    By C. B. Williams

    1921 Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture, Trinidad and Tobago: Report on the Froghopper-Blight of Sugar Cane in Trinidad

    Trinidad   Government Printing Office
    10" by 6.5" ix [1], 11-170pp
    Illustrated throughout with plates and diagrams, this is a very scarce scientific report on the impact of froghopper insects on Trinidad's sugar cane crops.
    £59.00
    : 1kgs / : 961F27
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    Description

    First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

    A vanishingly scarce work, in the original glassine.

    Number One of the publications of the 'Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture, Trinidad and Tobago'.

    This work, 'Report on the Froghopper-Blight of Sugar Cane in Trinidad' by C. B. Williams, examines the devastating impact of the froghopper insect (tomaspis saccharina) on Trinidad's sugar cane industry. 

    Illustrated with eleven plates, one of which is in colour. Collated, complete.

    Inscription to front wrap head, ink illustrations of two smiley faces to rear wrap. 

    The report offers a comprehensive analysis of the pest's biology, including detailed descriptions of its life stages and its feeding habits, which lead to significant crop damage.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original paper wraps, with glassine. Tide mark to back strip, and wraps surrounding back strip. Pencil inscriptions to front wrap head. Former owner's illustration to rear wrap. Loss of paper to front wrap head. Glassine age toned to back strip, with light edgewear to back strip head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with instance of light tide marks to heads of leaves.

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