Monographia Apum Angliae: or an Attempt to divide into their natural Genera and Families, such Species of the Linnean Genus Apis as have been discovered in England

Description:

First edition. Usually found with 4 plates hand-coloured, all plates in this copy uncoloured. Half-titles and errata leaf present. Text English and Latin.

Nissen ZBI, 2188; British Bee Books, 165; Horn-Schenkling, 11735.

Condition

2 vols, 8vo, orig. publisher's cloth-backed paper covered boards; orig. printed paper title labels heavily rubbed with some loss. Spines worn with a few tears to backstrips, joints partly splitting, one rear corner bumped. Signature of Marcus Graham (1915-1995), British entomologist, to endpapers.