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A Treatise on the Insects Injurious to Fruit and Fruit Trees of the State of California, and Remedies Recommended for their Extermination
Sacramento: State Office, 1881. 72 pp, illustrated with small wood engravings, in original lavender printed wrappers. Some chipping to spine, old tears and tape repairs to back wrapper, else very good. Matthew Cooke was in the business of manufacturing fruit boxes in the 1870s when California’s apple crop was devastated..... Item #20560