Melisselogia, or, The female monarchy.
Subtitle: Being an enquiry into the nature, order, and government of bees, those admirable, instructive and useful insects. With a new, easy, and effectual method to preserve them, not only in colonies, but common hives ...
By: Written upon forty years observation and experience. By the Reverend Mr. John Thorley
Publisher: Printed for the author and sold by N. Thorley and J. Davids
Published: 1744
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Bee culture -- Early works to 1800; Bees
Other titles: Enquiry into the nature, order, and government of bees
Notes: "Melisselogia" appears on t.p. in Greek

Later editions published under title: An enquiry into the nature, order, and government of bees ..

Signatures: a-b8șc4șd3șB-O8ș

Library's copy bound in speckled calf, rebacked