Thomas W. Cowan: 'The Queen bee (Apis Mellifera) : a popular...

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£38

Thomas W. Cowan: 'The Queen bee (Apis Mellifera) : a popular illustrated record of British bee life', London : British Bee Journal, [1910], 16pp, b/w ills. throughout, plus "dissectible model embracing both external and internal parts. Reproduced in natural colours on superimposed plates, with explanatory note" at end as called for, large 4to, original pictorial boards worn (boards detached but present); together with H. Rowland Brown: 'Butterflies and Moths at Home and Abroad', London, 1912, 21 tipped in colour plates as called for, to, orig. cloth gilt, mounted colour ill. to front cover, Gordon: 'Our Country's Butterflies and Moths and how to know them. A guide to the Lepidoptera of Britain', L, Day & Son; Simpkin, Marshall, et al, c.1890, 1000 colour lithograph ills. of butterflies and moths on 33 full page plates as called for, orig. pictorial cloth, several leaves loose; plus 2 others on birds with colour plates (5)