Sold for:
$677

Bazin, Gilles Augustin (d. 1754) The Natural History of Bees. London: J. and P. Knapton, and P. Vailant, 1744. First and only English edition in ESTC, octavo, illustrated with twelve engravings, printed on folded sheets and bound after the text, bound in full contemporary speckled calf, gold rules and central ornaments in each compartment, red lettering piece, ex libris James Rigg of Downfield, Scotland, with his bookplate inside the front board, 8 x 4 3/4 in.


Skinner

Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2014-11-16