The female monarchy: or, the natural history 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, from that cruel Death, to which their Ignorant, Injurious, and most Ingrateful Owners so commonly condemn them. A Secret unknown to past Ages: And now Publish'd for the Benefit of Mankind. Written upon more than Fifty Years Observation and Experience: And Compar'd with all the different Authors Who have wrote on This Subject.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii,148,[4]p.,plates )

Other Title:

Female monarchy

The female monarchy

Place of Publication:

London : printed by J. Clarke, near the Temple, MDCCXLV. [1745]

Notes:

Mostly a shortened rewriting of John Thorley's 'Melissēlogia'; probably a piracy.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

British bee books: a bibliography., 100

English Short Title Catalog, N31376.

OCLC:

642190328