Bees.- Bagster (Samuel) The Management of Bees. With a Description of the "Ladies Safety Hive.", first edition, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece of queen, worker and drone bees, heightened in gilt, title in red and black and with charming wood-engraved vignette of women tending to their hive, wood-engraved illustrations within text, all by D. Dodd or Charles M. Curtis, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, contemporary green cloth, original black thick paper gilt title label to spine (chipped, just touching part of the first letter 'B'), corners little worn, rubbed, [British Bee Books 222; Walker p.4], 8vo, Samuel Bagster & William Pickering, 1834. *** The author's first work on bees, which attempts to distill contemporary bee literature. In so doing, he discusses his predecessors on the subject, including Francis Huber and Thomas Nutt.