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      • Bees.- Butler (Charles) The Feminin' Monarchi', or the Histori of Bee's, third edition, Oxford, Printed by William Turner, for de Author, 1634.
        Mar. 28, 2024

        Bees.- Butler (Charles) The Feminin' Monarchi', or the Histori of Bee's, third edition, Oxford, Printed by William Turner, for de Author, 1634.

        Est: £2,000 - £3,000

        Bees.- Butler (Charles) The Feminin' Monarchi', or the Histori of Bee's, third edition, verso of title with half-page woodcut illustration of the hive with a crowned queen at head (perhaps in honour of the dedicatee Queen Henrietta Maria) and with verses in Latin and English beneath, woodcut diagrams, musical notation for a bee's madrigal, head-pieces and historiated or decorative initials, printed side-notes, early ink pen trials to title and occasionally elsewhere (mostly in margins), R4 short tear to outer margin, just touching a printed side-note without loss, Z2&3 small hole in outer margin, occasional spotting or staining (including some ink), lightly browned, lacking endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary sheep, spine ends little worn, corners worn, rubbed, scuffed and scratched, but solid, [British Bee Books 18; Walker p.12; Madan II, 780; STC 4194], small 4to, Oxford, Printed by William Turner, for de Author, 1634. *** 'This is the greatest early British bee book and contains the best account of skep beekeeping which is available today.' (British Bee Books). First published in 1609, this is the first edition written in the phonetic spelling devised by the author.

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      • Charles Butler Stoney, A portrait of Billy Duffy standing in an Irish field, oil on board, signed with initial
        Mar. 09, 2022

        Charles Butler Stoney, A portrait of Billy Duffy standing in an Irish field, oil on board, signed with initial

        Est: £200 - £300

        Charles Butler Stoney, A portrait of Billy Duffy standing in an Irish field, oil on board, signed with initials and dated 1868, with further inscriptions, 11" x 9" and another of an Irish coachman by the same hand, oil on board 11" x 9", (unframed) (2).

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      • Butler (Charles) The Feminine Monarchie: or The Historie of Bees, second edition, Printed by John Haviland for Roger Jackson, 1623.
        Oct. 21, 2021

        Butler (Charles) The Feminine Monarchie: or The Historie of Bees, second edition, Printed by John Haviland for Roger Jackson, 1623.

        Est: £2,000 - £3,000

        Butler (Charles) The Feminine Monarchie: or The Historie of Bees, second edition, woodcut frontispiece, woodcut illustrations, initials and decorations, 4pp. musical notation, sig. A with 6ff., final blank leaf present, foot of K4 trimmed with slight loss of last line of text, hole in Y3 with loss to a few words on both sides, [British Bee Books 18; STC 4193; Walker Catalogue p.11], Printed by John Haviland for Roger Jackson, 1623; bound after Lawson (William) A New Orchard and Garden, 4 parts in 1, largely printed in black letter, woodcut illustration on title, woodcut illustrations including 10 of knot gardens, final blank leaf present, lower edge of G1 slightly defective with loss to one word of text, C2 side-notes shaved with slight loss, [STC 15330], Printed...by I. H. for Roger Jackson, 1623; bound after [i.e. part 4 of] Markham's The Way to Get Wealth, 1623, substantially complete but lacking general title-page, parts misbound and with some defective leaves, together in 1 vol., contemporary limp vellum, binding almost detached, soiled and lacking ties, 4to ⁂ A good collection of works on husbandry and bee-keeping. The Butler is particularly important, being "...the greatest early British bee book and contains the best account of skep beekeeping which is available today" (British Bee Books). It is the first edition to contain both the woodcut frontispiece and the 4-part madrigal which was an attempt to capture the piping of the queen at swarming time. The Walker catalogue calls it "the most readable Edn.".

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