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BEEKEEPING RUSDEN (MOSES) A Further Discovery of Bees. Treating the Nature, Government, Generation & Preservation of the Bee, FIRST EDITION, for the Author, 1679
11 March 2020, 13:00 GMT
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BEEKEEPING
RUSDEN (MOSES) A Further Discovery of Bees. Treating the Nature, Government, Generation & Preservation of the Bee, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece, 3 folding engraved plates (2 with short tear repaired on verso with tape, side-note on p.36 cropped, contemporary calf over pasteboards, rebacked, corners worn, upper cover cracked [ESTC R11920], 8vo, for the Author, 1679
Footnotes
A treatise by Moses Rusden, 'Bee-Master to Charles II', containing practical information on the keeping of bees and the benefits and disadvantages of different hives. The book is dedicated to King Charles, explaining the reason why, despite including extensive descriptions of the queen bee, Rusden still refers to it exclusively as the 'king-bee'. It also includes a lengthy dedicatory epistle to the Royal Society.
Provenance: M. Staples, Thame, and Mrs. Shrimpton, nineteenth century ink inscription; "G.R. Bostock, Aslockton, Notts", small oval ink stamp, both on verso of frontispiece.