Description

A new edition with an abridged version of De Candolle’s memoir of the author, a large appendix of practical guidance on bee-keeping and an extensive index. Text “revised and rendered more agreeeable to the English idiom”. 1st thus. Laid in is an 1870 review of ‘The Handy Book of the Bee’. Original cloth worn and cracking at spine edge. Five fold out plates at rear. A scarce edition, publisghed in Scotland Original brown cloth with paper spine label. Worn to edges of spine. Contempoary signature to front endpaper. A Good early copy.