Bees.- Chylinski (Dobrogost) The Beekeeper's Manual: founded on the experience, during many centuries of the apiarians in Poland. Dedicated to the Agriculturists of Great Britain, first edition, half-title, lithographed frontispiece and 3 plates of hives and apparatus, 4pp. publisher's advertisement at end, plate at p.34 neatly loose, plates at p.34 and p.68 with a water-stain to upper margin, some spotting, lightly browned, yellow endpapers, original green cloth, upper cover with gilt title within a gilt circular garland, cloth at head of upper joint split, but joint remaining firm, some staining (mostly to upper cover) and fading, [British Bee Books 251; Walker p.13], small 8vo, Wm. S. Orr and Co., 1845.
⁂ Rare. Chylinski was one of the great Bee-Masters of Poland; a country renowned for its bee-keeping and honey and beeswax production. Here he recommends the use of a large Polish upright hive to British bee-keepers.
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