A Theatre of Politicall Flying-Insects. Wherein especially the nature, the worth, the work, the wonder and the manner of right-ordering of the Bee, is discovered and described.and in a Second Part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral in three Centuries upon that subject.

Purchas, Samuel.

Edité par 1st. Ed. Pub. R.I for Thomas Parkhurst, London. 1657

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pp.13 leaves, 387 with both longitudinal title-page and separate title-page for the Second Part. With errata leaf. Collated and complete. 8vo. Hardback. AEG. Three, very small neat repairs to verso of main title-page. A few spots, very minor mark to one blank margin o/w. the contents are exceptional and in fine condition. Very handsome, early 20th Century full mottled calf-leather binding by Zaehnsdorf, spine richly gilt decorated with red and green labels, inner gilt dentelles, all in very nr. fine condition. Marbled end-papers. Prov: Neat private library stamp to rear pastedown (Rothamsted, Lawes Trust, acquired by them in 1918) and neat hand-written lib. no. to front pastedown. Scarce. Harding 35. Samuel Purchas was the son of the author of Purchas his Pilgrimes (1619). He became rector of Sutton in Essex and he dedicated this book, which references early beekeepers and their works, to Robert, Earle of Warwick. Purchas was clearly a deeply religious man and a great advocate of Bees.

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• Titre: A Theatre of Politicall Flying-Insects. Wherein especially the nature, the worth, the work, the wonder and the manner of right-ordering of the Bee, is discovered and described.and in a Second Part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral in three Centuries upon that subject.
• Éditeur: 1st. Ed. Pub. R.I for Thomas Parkhurst, London. 1657
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
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