| Item Description: | Michael Laird, bookseller, description: Scarce promotional catalogue for the D.S. Given press for making beeswax foundation and wire frames for beehives. From the text: "It has been admitted by all who have given it a test, that the Given Press produces [beeswax] foundation superior for comb honey, and that it has no competitor for making wired frames of foundation. The ceptum is made as thin as natural comb and the line is larger and filled with soft was, and the bees work it thinner and quicker, and use every particle of wax, while in the brood wired frame of foundation there is no sagging, warping or breaking out." OCLC locations only a single example, dated 1881, that being at the University of Guelph. The present catalogue has been brought up to date with Testimonials from 1883. |
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