The feminin' monarchi', or the histori' of bee's. Shewing their admirable natur', and propertis; their generation and colonis; their government, loyalti, art, industri; enimi's, wars, magnanimiti, etc. Together with the right ordering of them from tim' to tim': and the sweet' profit arising ther'of / Written out of Experienc( by Charles Butler.

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Oxford : Printed by William Turner, for ðe Author, M.DC.XXXIV.

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16, 182 pages : illustrations, diagrams, woodcuts ; (4to)

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STC 4194
ESTC S106981
Madan, I, p.177
STC (2nd ed.), 4194

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Third edition. First published 1609
Printed according to the system of orthography proposed by the author in his English grammar, 1633
"Melissomelos, or Bee's madrigal" (the song of the bees at swarming): 4 pages of table-music (p. 78-81)
Numbers 113-114 omitted in the paging

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