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J. Berryman : engraver on wood, 11 Gough Square, Fleet Street.

Apiculture: beehives in Germany in the form of diminutive buildings. Photogravure after Braunsburger.

Ten bee-hives on wooden shelves; two men working in the foreground. Woodcut, ca. 1502.

A further discovery of bees. Treating of the nature, government, generation and preservation of the bee. With the experiments and improvements arising from the keeping them in transparent boxes, instead of straw-hives. Also proper directions (to all such as keep bees) as well to prevent their robbing in straw-hives, as their killing in the colonies / By Moses Rusden. Pub. by His Majesties especial command, and approved by the Royal Society at Gresham Coll.

Honey bottles : No. 51 : we stock the best quality / James Lee & Son.

Above, a bee presents a honeycomb to the Olympian gods in the clouds; below, bees are flying into and out of two wicker beehives; illustration of a fable. Etching by F. Barlow.

Apiculture: beehives. engraving.

A bee, five butterflies (including a pale clouded yellow), six moths and two crane flies with details of antennae. Coloured etching, ca. 1834.

A celebration party given in honour of a good harvest. Engraving by B. Picart, 1733, after Virgil.

Dissertatio inauguralis medica de productis apum ... / submittit Franciscus Sebastianus Feyrtag de Festis.

The true amazons: or, the monarchy of bees. Being a new discovery and improvement of those wonderful creatures. Wherein is experimentally demonstrated, I. That they are all governed by a Queen. II. The amazing Beauty and Dignity of her Person. III. Her extraordinary Authority and Power. IV. Their exceeding Loyalty and unparallelled Love to their Queen. V. Their Sex, Male and Female. VI. Their Manner of Breeding. Vii. Their Wars. Viii. Their Enemies; with Directions plain and easy, how to manage them, both in Straw-Hives and transparent Boxes; so that with laying out but four or five Pounds, in three or four Years, if the Summers are kind, you may get thirty or forty Pounds per Annum. Also, how to make the English wine or mead, equal, if not superior, to the best of other Wines. By Joseph Warder, of Crydon, Physician.

Narbonne honey... : as being particularly wholesome, preventing coughs, colds, fevers, consumptions, &c.

Anatomy, medicine and botany; top, kidneys; centre left, bee; centre right, hornet; bottom, Mecca balsam (Commiphora opobalsamum). Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.

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.

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Dissertatio inauguralis medica de productis apum ... / submittit Franciscus Sebastianus Feyrtag de Festis.

Narbonne honey... : as being particularly wholesome, preventing coughs, colds, fevers, consumptions, &c.

Anatomy, medicine and botany; top, kidneys; centre left, bee; centre right, hornet; bottom, Mecca balsam (Commiphora opobalsamum). Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.