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J. Berryman : engraver on wood, 11 Gough Square, Fleet Street.

Apiculture: beehives in Germany in the form of diminutive buildings. Photogravure after Braunsburger.

A further discovery of bees. Treating of the nature, government, generation and preservation of the bee. With the experiments and improvements arising from the keeping them in transparent boxes, instead of straw-hives. Also proper directions (to all such as keep bees) as well to prevent their robbing in straw-hives, as their killing in the colonies / By Moses Rusden. Pub. by His Majesties especial command, and approved by the Royal Society at Gresham Coll.

Honey bottles : No. 51 : we stock the best quality / James Lee & Son.

Above, a bee presents a honeycomb to the Olympian gods in the clouds; below, bees are flying into and out of two wicker beehives; illustration of a fable. Etching by F. Barlow.

Apiculture: beehives. engraving.

A bee, five butterflies (including a pale clouded yellow), six moths and two crane flies with details of antennae. Coloured etching, ca. 1834.

A celebration party given in honour of a good harvest. Engraving by B. Picart, 1733, after Virgil.

When pollen's buzzing around... : Rynacrom : disodium cromoglycate for hay fever.

Dissertatio inauguralis medica de productis apum ... / submittit Franciscus Sebastianus Feyrtag de Festis.

Narbonne honey... : as being particularly wholesome, preventing coughs, colds, fevers, consumptions, &c.

Anatomy, medicine and botany; top, kidneys; centre left, bee; centre right, hornet; bottom, Mecca balsam (Commiphora opobalsamum). Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.

Sinnesphysiologie und "Sprache" der Bienen / von K. v. Frisch.

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford, A.E. Shipley, assisted by A.K. Marshall. Hymenoptera. Vol.I, Wasps and bees. Vol.II, Ants and cuckoo-wasps / by C.T. Bingham. Vol. III, Ichneumonidae:-I. Ichneumones Deltoidei / by Claude Morley.

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Dissertatio inauguralis medica de productis apum ... / submittit Franciscus Sebastianus Feyrtag de Festis.

Narbonne honey... : as being particularly wholesome, preventing coughs, colds, fevers, consumptions, &c.

Anatomy, medicine and botany; top, kidneys; centre left, bee; centre right, hornet; bottom, Mecca balsam (Commiphora opobalsamum). Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.

Sinnesphysiologie und "Sprache" der Bienen / von K. v. Frisch.

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford, A.E. Shipley, assisted by A.K. Marshall. Hymenoptera. Vol.I, Wasps and bees. Vol.II, Ants and cuckoo-wasps / by C.T. Bingham. Vol. III, Ichneumonidae:-I. Ichneumones Deltoidei / by Claude Morley.