32 BERNARD QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE, No. 842 /"/<D -3 



BEES: 



488 [BAZIN (G. A.)]. The Natural History of Bees. Containing an Account of their Production, 

 their Oeconomy, the manner of their making Wax and Honey, and the best Methods for the 

 Improvement and Preservation of them. Translated from the French. 



8vo., with 12 folding copper-plates ; tear across title-page repaired; contemporavy calf (wom), 

 rebacked. 1744 £2 10s. |7.00 



489 BUTLER (C). Monarchia Fceminina, Sive Apum Historia, Enarrans Naturam ipsarum 

 mirabilem & proprietates ; Generationem & Colonias ; Politiam, Fidem, Artem, Industriam ; 

 Hostes, Bella, Magnanimitatem, &c. ... Nunc primum Interprete R. Ricardi . . . 

 Londini ... 1673. 



Sm. 8vo., with folding plate, small tear in blank margin of title and in fold of woodcut; light 

 water-stain on a few leaves, paper of some leaves at beginning and end rather soft and brittle; 

 contemporary calf repaired. London, 1673 £16 $44.80 



Wing B6262. 



490 EVRARD (E.). The Mystery of the Hive. Translated by B. Miall. 



8vo., cloth. 1923 10s. $1.40 



491 LEVETT (J.). The ordering of Bees ; Or, The True History Of Managing Them From time 

 to time, with their hony and waxe, shewing their nature and Breed. As also what Trees, 

 Plants, and Hearbs are good for them, and namely what are hurtfull : together with the 

 extraordinary profit arising from them. Set forth in a Dialogue, resolving all doubts what- 

 soever . . . London, Printed by Thomas Harper . . . 1634. 



Sm. 8vo., with plate; small marginal tear in last leaf mended; a few small stains; early MS 

 notes in the wide margins, I9th cent. half roan repaired. 1634 £45 $126.00 



The only edition ; scarce. S.T.C., 15555. 



492 RUSDEN (M.). A Further Discovery Of Bees. Treating of The Nature, Government, Genera- 

 tion & Preservation of the Bee. With the Experiments and Improvements arising from the 

 keeping them in transparent Boxes instead of Straw-hives . . . London, Printed for the Author 

 . . . 1679. 



Sm. 8vo., with frontispiece and 3 folding plates; modern calf antique style. 1679 



£28 $78.40 

 Rusden calls himself "Bee-Master to the King's most excellent Majesty". 

 Wing R2313. 



493 SCHIRACH (A. G.). Histoire naturelle de la Reine des Abeilles, avec l'Art de former des 

 Essaims . . . On y a ajoute la Correspondance de 1'Auteur avec quelques Scavans, & trois 

 Memoires de Bonnet sur ses Decouvertes. Le tout Traduit de 1'Allemand ou recueilli, par 

 J. J. Blassiere. 



8vo., with 3 folding plates; half calf; scarce. The Hague, 1771 £1 15s. $21.70 



494 SLADEN (F. L. W.). The Humble-Bee, its Life History and how to domesticate it, with 

 Descriptions of all the British Species of Bombus and Psithyrus. 



8vo., with frontispiece, 1 plain and 5 coloured plates containing numerous figures, and 34 text- 

 illustrations ; cloth; very scarce. 1912 £4 lOs. $12.60 



495 VEJDOVSKY (F.). Remarques sur la Structure . . . des cellules adipeuses et des (Enocytes 

 pendant la Nymphose de 1'Abeille. 



Impl. 8vo., with 2 plates; sewed. Lierre, 1924 lOs. $1.40 



Extracted from La Cellule, Tom. XXXV. 



496 WILDMAN (T.). A Treatise on the Management of Bees ; wherein is contained the Natural 

 History of those Insects. To wliich are added, the Natural History of Wasps and Hornets, 

 and the Means- of destroying them. 



4to., with 3 folding plates ; contemporary calf, gilt spine, Bridgwater crest in gilt on sides. 1768 

 £5 $14.00 



497 BERCE (E.). Faune entomologique Francaise. Lepidopteres. 



6 vols., 12mo., with 4 (of 5) plain and 69 coloured plates; afew plate numerals cut into; 

 wrappers, those to Vol. 1 missing, others very wom and stitching loose. Paris, 1867-78 



A working set of this very scarce book. £5 $14.00 



498 BEIRNE (Bryan P.). British Pyralid & Plume Moths. Descriptions of the families Pyralidae, 

 Pterophoridae and Orneodidae. 



Sm. 8vo., with 405 figures of which 216 are from photographs in colour; cloth. 1952 



15s. $2.10 



499 BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA : or, Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna 

 and Flora of Mexico and Central America. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. By F. Ducane Godman 

 and O. Salvin. 



3 vols., roy. 4to., with 113 hand-coloured plates comprising hundreds of figures; newly bound 

 inhalf red morocco, gilt tops. 1879-1901 £115 $322.00 



500 Lepidoptera Heterocera. By H. Druce and Lord Walsingham. 



4 vols., roy. 4to., with 111 hand-coloured plates comprising hundreds of figures; newly bound 

 in red buckram, gilt tops. 1881-1915 /85 '$238.00 



