An enquiry into the nature, order, and government of bees, those instructive and useful insects
Subtitle: with a new, easy, and effectual method to preserve them, not only in colonies, but common hives. : a secret unknown to past ages, and now published for the benefit of mankind
By: Written upon observation and experience, by the Reverend Mr. John Thorley ...
Contributors: Waugh, James (Bookseller)
Edition: The second edition, illustrated with copper-plates.
Publisher: printed by J. Waugh in Lonbard-street, and sold by N. Thorley, at the Lock and Key, facing the Mansion-house
Published: 1765
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Bees; Early works to 1800; Behavior; Honeybee
Work titles: Melissēlogia
Notes: Frontispiece.

First edition, 1744, published under title: [Melisselogia] Or, the female monarchy ...

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