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Thorley, John. Messilogia, or the Female Monarchy... of Bees, first edition, engraved frontispiece and four plates, one folding, 2 plates with margins cropped, affecting border, 8vo, London: Printed for the Author, 1744; Hill, Thomas. The Arte of Gardening, 2 parts, 3 woodcut illustrations in text, A1-C4 with margins cropped, occasionally affecting fore edge notes, woodcuts, etc., title with contemporary manuscript annotations, worn, without half-title, 8vo, London: Edward Allde [and H.B.] 1608 [STC 13497]; Bickham, George, the younger. The New Years Gift or, Times Progress for the Year of Our Lord [1748], 12 engraved plates, London: For George Bickham [n.d.], the three works bound in one, seventeenth century calf, the covers stamped in blind with the initials 'E.F.', neatly rebacked in the nineteenth century, 8vo