irish bee guide manual modern de digges rev j g (2 résultats)

Cloth. Etat : Good+. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, amply illustrated with b/w portrait frontispiece and plates and in-text illustrations. Original green-black grained buckram, spine lettered in gilt and blind-ruled. Edges speckled red. Bumped, faintly soiled. Creased at top corners, gathering G loose, a few stains. Else, clean. Good+ A robust copy of this early C20th manual for bee-keeping, written "to promote a wider knowledge of the wonders of Bee life, to encourage humane and intelligent treatment of the Honey Bee, and to assist the development of Bee-Keeping in Ireland as a National Industry," and featuring portrait photographs of numerous expert Irish beekeepers, including Mrs Annie Cronin, Thomas McGrath, Sir Horace Plunkett, and Anthony Traill, amongst others.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Plates & text illustrations throughout. (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Lincolnshire Bee Keepers Association written in ink on title page. Some foxing, page edges thumbed. Contents shaken. Original decorated cloth very darkened and marked. 220 p. Book.