The Scots apiary: or, the compleat bee-master. Unfolding the whole art and mystery of managing bees. Wherein is shewn, the invaluable secret, of obtaining their labours, and preserving their lives. To which is added, the cultivation of hopps and lyquorice root, both of which the author brought to great perfection in Galloway. The whole being his study and improvement for upwards of sixty years: the like never before published. With an appendix, containing some remarkable occurences during the author's life. /
Petrie, James, approximately - 1686-
Glasgow: : Printed for, and to be sold by the author.,
MDCCLXIX [1769]..
With a list of subscribers.
Bound with: An expostulatory letter from J.J. Rousseau, citizen of Geneva, to Christopher de Beaumont -- Sketches on the art of painting / Anton Raphael Mengs -- Observations on the nature of civil liberty / Richard Price -- Some thoughts relating to that submission and obedience due to the authority and decisions of the supreme judicature of the church -- An extract from a pamphlet entitled, an humble acknowledgement of the sins of the ministry of Scotland.
ESTC
Bee culture
Hops
Licorice (Plant)