A treatise on the nature, economy, and practical management, of bees
Subtitle: in which the various systems of the British and foreign apiarians are examined, and the most improved methods laid down for effectually preserving the lives of the bees : containing also an accurate description, illustrated by plates, of the hives invented by Lombard, Ducouedic, Huber, Vicat, l'abbé della Rocca, and other foreign apiarians : and of a newly invented hive for the purpose of depriving the bees of their honey, with safety and expedition : forming the most complete guide to the study and management of those valuable insects
By: by Robert Huish, author of The Peruvians, a poem, &c. &c., fellow of the University of Arts and Science of Gottingen, honorary member of the Imperial Apiarian Society of Vienna, and corresponding member of the agricultural societies of Bavaria and Silesia
Edition: Second edition, with additions.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 47 Paternoster-Row
Published: 1817
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Bee culture; Handbooks, manuals
Notes: Advertisements on pages [397]-400.

Includes index.

Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.