![[Item #55100] The Honey Ants of the Garden of the Gods, and the Occident Ants of the American Plains. Henry MCCOOK, hristopher.](https://www.lornebair.com/pictures/55100.jpg?v=1631574912)
The Honey Ants of the Garden of the Gods, and the Occident Ants of the American Plains
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1882. Octavo (23cm). In red orange publisher's cloth, boards bevelled, titled in gilt on spine; brown coated endpapers; [1-4] 5-188, [2]; one-page prospectus requesting subscribers for McCook's next work, on American Spiders; 13 tinted lithographs, depicting ants and ant habitats. A straight copy, rubbed, especially at extremities, spine darkened, both hinges cracked through and glued; text somewhat browned, but plates bright: Good.
An early account of the social habits of American ants, based on research trips to Colorado, Nebraska, and elsewhere in the American West.
Price: $125.00
