A Handbook for the Identification of Insects of Medical Importance (1943)

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Smart, John.  A Handbook for the Identification of Insects of Medical Importance. (British Museum: London, 1943)   with chapters on Fleas by Dr. Karl Jordan and on Arachnids by R. J. Whittick.

Quarto, 269 pages. 13 plates, all present, and numerous in-text illustrations.

Bound in green boards, front board stamped with a double rule frame in blind, Spine stamped in gilt with a rule top and bottom. Book shows slight lean to left.

John Smart (1907-1986) was on the staff of the Natural History Museum in London at the time of publication.  Karl Jordan (1861-1959) was an entomologist working at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum in Tring, Hertfordshire, England.

Bookplate of Roger W. Williams inside of front cover.  Roger W. Williams was a Professor at the Division of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York.