The English apiary: or, The compleat bee-master. : Unfolding the whole art and mystery of the management of bees. Being a collection and improvement of what has been written by all authors, relating to this subject, as well antient as modern. With A new discovery of an excellent method for making bee-houses and colonies, to free the owners from the great charge and trouble that attends the swarming of bees and is much more advantageous than any other method hitherto practised. /
Gedde, John.
Commons, Robert,active 1731,former owner.StEdNL
Adams, Robert,former owner.StEDNL
London: : Printed for E. Curll, W. Mears, and T. Corbet, in the Strand.,
MDCCXXI [1721]
Pages [85]-108 have special t.p.: A new discovery of an excellent method of bee-houses and colonies, to free the owners from the great charges and trouble that attends the swarming of bees, and delivers the bees from the evil reward of ruin for the benefit they have brought their masters; advantaging their owners manyfold above whatever any method heretofor practic'd doth. / Experienced seven years by John Gedde, Gent. Inventor; and approved by the Royal Society at Gresham College. London: Printed in the year 1675. And reprinted in MDCCXXII [1722].
ESTC
Inscription on the recto of the front free endpaper reads "Robert Commons his book 1731". Inscription on the verso of the initial back free endpaper reads "Robert Adams his hand and pen God save his life and so amen and if my pen had [?] [?] I would amend [?] [?].
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