The feminin' monarchi', or the histori' of bee's. Shewing their admirable natur', and propertis; their generation and colonis; their government, loyalti, art, industri; enimi's, wars, magnanimiti, etc. Together with the right ordering of them from tim' to tim': and the sweet' profit arising ther'of
By: Written out of Experienc( by Charles Butler
Publisher: Printed by William Turner, for ðe Author
Published: 1634
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Bees
Notes: Third edition. First published 1609.

Printed according to the system of orthography proposed by the author in his English grammar, 1633.

"Melissomelos, or Bee's madrigal" (the song of the bees at swarming): 4 pages of table-music (p. 78-81)

Numbers 113-114 omitted in the paging.

STC 4194.

ESTC S106981.

Madan, I, p.177.

STC (2nd ed.), 4194.