Author: PALTEAU.-
Title: Nouvelle Construction de ruches de bois, avec la façon d'y gouverner les abeilles, inventée par M. Palteau, premier Commis du Bureau des Vivres de la Généralité de Metz; et l'histoire naturelle de ces insects. Le tout arrangé & mis en ordre par M. ***.
Description: Metz, Chez Joseph Collignon, Imprimeur du Roi, à la Bible d'Or, 1756. 8vo. W. engr. front. title ['Les F. Pantaleon F.'], small woodcut vignet on title [stag and tree] & 5 fold. engr. pls. w. a total of 34 ills. at the end. In fine contemp. coloured floral patterned .... chintz?? paper brds. With the original paper titleshield preserved. (Lower outer hinges a few chips and some loss of paper surface, upper hinge a little more visible). [n1, a8, b7, A - Z8 [quire Z erratic: Z2, Z1, Z4, Z3, Z6, Z5, Z8, Z7, Aa - Cc8, Dd4]. (II, XXX, 442, II pp.). (Erratic pagination of quire Z [pp. 353 - 368.). (Uncut; occasional light yellowing.). (Owner's inscription in ink on printed titlepage 'Palteau'[?].). Not in Barbier. Collation complete, quire Z mispaginated; 5 lovely engraved folding copperengr. plates depicting beehives and their mode of construction.

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