[LAGRENEE (C.-L.)]. L'Art de gouverner les abeilles, et de f - Lot 58

[LAGRENEE (C.-L.)]. L'Art de gouverner les abeilles, et de fabriquer le miel et la cire sans méprises [...] Pour tirer des Abeilles tout le profit possible. Avec un Abrégé de ce que les Insectes offrent de plus curieux. Paris, Serviere, 1784. In- 12 of 250, [2] pp. front. and 3 h.-t. plates. Marbled beige basane, spine with 5 faux-nerfs, gilt title (Modern binding). Expanded second edition, published the year after the original. Treatise on beekeeping dedicated to the parish priests of the Kingdom. Garden selection, bee species, swarms, diseases, honey harvesting, wax, etc. Note the chapter on bee fights (and how to stop them), on the massacre of bumblebees, and a section devoted to "the most curious things bees have to offer".