C. Arden, Bookseller Darren Bloodworth The Nursery, Forest Road, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DT, U.K. Tel: +44 (0) 1497-820471 Email: [email protected] Web: www.ardenbooks.co.uk Catalogue No. 113 Bees & Beekeeping 1 - 11 Botany 12 - 140 Charles Darwin & Alfred Russel Wallace 141 - 161 Entomology 162 - 200 Fine, Illustrated and Antiquarian 201 - 228 Gardening 229 - 351 Natural History & Zoology 352 - 433 New Naturalist - Main series 434 - 507 New Naturalist - Monographs 508 - 515 Ornithology 516 - 634 Plant Hunting 635 - 695 Special Offers - all subject areas 696 - 744 Travel 745 - 770 It’s been a busy year and a little while since our last Catalogue. We hope this one, with many new purchases, finds you well. Part two of our ‘Plant Hunting’ books feature in this catalogue and our section focussing on ‘Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace’ contains some very interesting works, many in excellent condition. Books by Darwin and Wallace are proving very much in demand. ‘Saltmarsh’ is the latest (5th) title in the British Wildlife Publishing series and we expect it will be very well received (Item 700). We have three of the other titles in the series in stock (Items 721, 726 & 731). Two New Naturalist titles have been published since Catalogue 112, namely, ‘Early Humans’ and ‘Farming and Birds’ (Items 506 & 507 in this catalogue). ‘Beetles’ is next, planned for January 2018. We can take pre-publication orders (see the last page of the catalogue for more detail. With very best wishes, Darren ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Books can be ordered by telephone, email and letter. Also, many of the books in this catalogue can be viewed and purchased on-line at www.ardenbooks.co.uk. We accept debit and credit cards, bank transfers and Paypal, We do not accept American Express. All postage on books is extra. Abbreviations Vg very good t.e.g. top edges gilt pp pages Dw dust wrapper illus. illustrations f.e.p. front end paper o/w otherwise nd no date a.e.g all edges gilt b/w black & white sl slightly pbk paperback (Nov.2017) Bees & Beekeeping Our stock of over 800 bee & beekeeping books can be viewed at www.ardenbooks.co.uk 1. Bevan, Edward. The Honey Bee. Its natural history, physiology, and management. 2nd. Pub. Van Voorst. 1838 pp.xxiv, 447 with illus. frontis. and figs. in text. Bound in recent half-green cloth and marbled boards. In fine condition. (Harding 201). [38672] £125.00 ‘Walker p.7 ‘[Bevan] practised as a [Doctor] at Mortlake, and at Congleton, Cheshire. His health giving way, he retired to Bridstow, near Ross (Hereford.)], where he began to study bees. His book...at once....brought him into correspondence with the foremost bee-keepers of his time. In 1849 he moved to Hereford, where he died...Ob. [in] ‘The Cottage Gardener’, Lond., Vol.XXIII. Feb. 28, 1866.’’ 2. Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. Of Husbandry. In Twelve Books: And His book Concerning Trees. 1st. Eng. Ed. Pub. A. Millar 1745 pp.xiv, 600 plus index. Intermittent foxing. Hinges neatly repaired. Red sprinkle decoration to fore-edges of text block. More recent quarter calf spine added to contemporary boards showing some rubbing. With contemporary armorial bookplate of Thomas Boswall Esq. of Blackadder and with ‘W. Phorson’s Circulating Library’ label (c.1800) to front paste-down. Contents very clean, with a little scattered foxing. Overall a vg. copy. (Harding 98). [46415] £800.00 Columella is considered the most important writer on agriculture of the Roman Empire. ‘Of Husbandry’ is a fascinating work with chapters dedicated to beekeeping, the husbandry of land, vines, livestock, poultry and fruit growing. ‘Columella, a Spaniard [believed of Roman parentage], wrote about a century after Virgil. He saw service in the East and then settled on an estate near Rome. Probably a commercial beekeeper, he gave very detailed and well conceived advice on many aspects of apiary management, including requeening, uniting and migratory beekeeping’ (Fraser). 3. Falk, S. Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland. British Wildlife Field Guide. 1st. Ed. Pub. British Wildlife Publishing. 2015 pp.432 with colour photographs & over 1,000 colour and black & white illustrations by Richard Lewington. 8vo. A new softback copy. RRP £35.00. [49180] £31.50 Highly recommended. 4. Herrod-Hempsall, W. Bee-Keeping. New and Old. Described with pen and camera. 1st. Ed. Pub. British Bee Journal. 1930-37 Two volume set. Crown 4to. Original boards, with spines professionally relaid on both volumes (end-papers replaced at same time), all in thor. vg. condition. Contents in fine condition. With author’s signature to ffep which reads ‘W. Herrod-Hempsall, December 8th 1932’. A thor. vg. set. (Harding 658). [50781] £325.00 Volume two is particularly hard to find and this work is still very much sought after for its content. A seven year gap in publication between the two volumes is the reason that the cloth used to bind the work is a different shade of green. 5. Hodges, Dorothy. (Richard Jones (Ed.)). The Pollen Grain Drawings of Dorothy Hodges. 1st. Ed. Pub. IBRA. 2009 pp.32 with b/w. drawings throughout. 8vo. A new softback. [53447] £9.00 Taken from the ‘Pollen Loads of the Honeybee’, these drawings are of outstanding artistic merit and offer the possibility of identifying the pollen forms which are most frequently collected by bees. 6. Kirk, W.D.J. and Howes, F.N. Plants for Bees. A Guide to the Plants that Benefit the Bees of the British Isles. 1st. Ed. Pub. IBRA 2012 pp.311 with colour photographs throughout. 4to. A new hdbk. in new dustwrapper. [52943] £35.00 Highly recommended. 7. McGregor, S.E. Insect Pollination of Cultivated Crop Plants. Agriculture Handbook No. 496. 1st. Ed. Pub. Agricultural Research Service. 1976 pp.viii, 411 with b/w. photos. and illus. 4to. Feint, scattered foxing to ffep. Spine strengthened with clear plastic. Gently sunned covers. A vg. softback. [53335] £40.00 8. Scottish Beekeepers’ Association. The Scottish Beekeeper. Volume I to IV. 1st. Ed. Pub. S.B.A. 1924-1928 Four volumes comprising all monthly Journals from Volume 1, No.1 to Volume 4, No. 18 (July 1924 to December 1928). With many photographs. 4to. All title pages and adverts present. Neat bookplate to ffep. of each volume. Contents vg. to fine. Hardbacks. Bound in original blue cloth with gilt decoration and lettering, all in vg. to fine condition. Four pages of hand-written lecture notes loosely inserted at the end of Volume 1. They are dated and appear to be a Lecturer’s own notes for a presentation entitled ‘Some Notes on the Anatomy of the Bee’, delivered to the Edinburgh District Beekeepers’ Association, 16/2/28. [53319] £325.00 A treasure trove of information. 9. Seeley, T.D. Honeybee Democracy. 1st. Ed. Pub. Princeton. 2010 pp.269 with colour, b/w. photos and illus. 4to. A new hdbk. in new dw. [52024] £27.50 Beginning with a discussion about life in a honeybee colony, this classic text then moves onto an in-depth study of swarming, the subsequent search for a new home & the democratic decision making that the honeybees undertake during this process. 10. Smith, Frederick. Catalogue of British Hymenoptera. Part 1. Catalogue of British Bees in the Collection of the British Museum. 2nd. Ed. Pub. BM Trustees. 1876 pp.xi, 236 with 11 plates. 8vo. Small, neat address label to ffep. Contents nr. fine. A vg. hdbk. in original brown cloth boards, with one quite minor knock to rear board top-edge. [52152] £60.00 The first edition of this work was published in 1855. There was significant interest in this subject at the time and as a result of this and the availability of a significant amount of new information, a second edition was published. 11. Von Frisch, Karl. The Dancing Bees. Pub. Methuen. 1954 pp.xiv, 183 with b/w. photography, illus. and text figs. 8vo. A thor. vg. hdbk. in thor. vg. dw. [49015] £45.00 Botany 12. Aitken, Richard. Botanical Riches. Stories of botanical exploration. 2nd. Ed. Pub. Lund Humphries. 2007 pp.xi, 243 beautifully illustrated in colour throughout. Large 4to. A fine hdbk. in fine dw. [53477] £38.00 A super work. Divided into 4 main sections; ‘Plants of the ancient and classical worlds’ (from the dawn of time to 1450), ‘The great age of maritime exploration’ (from the 1450s to 1750s), ‘Scientific imperialism and exotic botany’ (from the 1750s to the 1900s) and lastly, ‘Living Fossils’ (The 1900s and beyond). 13. Aldhous, J.R. (Ed.). Our Pinewood Heritage. Proceedings of a conference at Culloden Academy, Inverness. 20th - 22nd October, 1994. 1st. Ed. Pub. Forestry Commission. 1995 pp.v, 266 with b/w. text figs. Royal 8vo. A vg. softback. [53357] £16.00 14. Balfour, Isaac Bayley (et al.). Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Vols. I to XXII. 1st. Ed. Pub. Edinburgh / Glasgow. 1900-’58 Twenty-two volumes bound in twelve. 8vo. Ex-Royal Society, Edinburgh. Contents all in near fine or fine condition. Handsomely bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering and emblem to spines. All bindings in fine condition. A superb set with plates throughout (many fold-out) including plans of the garden. Scarce. [53505] £700.00 A fascinating insight into the history and activities of RBG Edinburgh; its development, research carried out in the garden, much plant hunting material and more. An excellent example is the significant amount of information contributed by George Forrest following his expeditions to China and Tibet. Forrest’s text is supported by many plates, both illustrative and photographic. 15. Batten, A. Flowers of Southern Africa.