A New Plan for Speedily Increasing the Number of Bee-Hives in Scotland; and which may be extended, with equal success, to England, Ireland, America, or to any other part of the World capable of Producing Flowers.
Published by Edinburgh: Printed by J. Moir, etc, 1795. First edition.
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Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, CanadaWilliam Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop
AbeBooks seller since July 29, 2011
Condition: Used
US$ 440.36
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Small 4to. Full contemporary marbled sheep, treated as tree-calf, spine ruled in gilt and titled in gilt on a red panel. Some rubbing to spine and hinges, small ownership sticker on inner front cover, signature on upper title, generally a clean and attractive very good copy. This copy with the half-title, Subscriber's List, and final ad/errata leaf all present. British Bee Books 151, wherein the author James Bonner (who was Bee-Master at Auchencrow, near Berwick-on-Tweed), is described as 'the most able and the best known of Scottish bee-men'. This book is an expansion of his earlier publication: The Bee-master's Companion and Assistant (1789).
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- A New Plan for Speedily Increasing the Number of Bee-Hives in Scotland; and which may be extended, with equal success, to England, Ireland, America, or to any other part of the World capable of Producing Flowers.
- Author
- Bonner (James), Bee-Master.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh: Printed by J. Moir, etc, 1795. First edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
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William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop
Sidney, BC, Canada
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