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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. HARDBACK card covered boards black lettering on spine pictorial dust-jacket - very fine not price-clipped pages: xii 198 many text-figs. a new item in near mint condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. HARDBACK card covered boards black lettering on spine pictorial dust-jacket - very fine not price-clipped pages: xii 198 many text-figs. a new item in near mint condition.

pp.xii, 198 with b/w. photos., and illus. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw. A concise history of beekeeping, tracing the evolution of hive design from ancient Egypt to the present. The author discusses what worked, what did not, and what we have forgotten about past hives that might help today.

Insects are the form of life most alien to us. Across millennia, insects have been providers and sources of food as well as feared vectors of infection. Particular insect types have come to be associated with beauty, diligence, and social and divine order, whilst others have become symbols of invasion, disease, and social decay. Today, insects are used to create luxury goods, to pollinate crops, to colour political rhetoric, and to contribute to modern-day logistics, genetics, and forensics. A Cultural History of Insects reveals how our relationship with insects - in life and in death - is one of our most productive and intimate. The work is divided into 6 volumes, with each volume covering the same topics, so readers can either study a period/volume or follow a topic across history. The 6 volumes cover: Antiquity (c.1000 BCE-500 CE); the Medieval Age (500-1300); the Renaissance (1300-1600); the Age of Enlightenment (1600-1820); the Age of Industry (1820-1920); the Modern Age (1920-present). Themes (and chapter titles) are: insect knowledge; insects and disease; insects and food; insect products; insects in mythology and religion; insects as symbols; insects in literature and language; and insects in art. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors and an Introduction and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index. London. Bloomsbury Publishing. 1447 pp., 279 b/w photos and b/w illustrations, hardback gr. 8 [17.5 x 25 cm].