Binns, Thomas

Apis. On Mechanics. Transcripts. Illustrated with carefully executed pen-drawings of the original engraved plates of bee-keeping apparatus, and of diagrams and figures illustrating the second work. This MS. is uniform with the following entry: a signature 'Thomas Binns' has been pasted down on the recto of the fly-leaf.

c. 1780

1 volume 237 pp. + 313 pp. + 1 bl. l. 4to. 19 x 15 cm. Original half rough-calf binding.

Purchased 1931.

Inside the upper cover is the armorial book-plate of Henry Ecroyd Smith [1823-1889] the Archaeologist.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).