Purchas, Samuel,  -approximately 1658. <br/><br/>
A theatre of politicall flying-insects :  wherein especially the nature, the vvorth, the vvork, the wonder and the manner of right-ordering of the bee is discovered and described : together with discourses historical, and observations physical concerning them : and in a second part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral, in three centuries upon that subject / 
by Samuel Purchas ... 
 - London :  Printed by R.I. for Thomas Parkhurst, to be sold at his shop ...,  1657. 
 - [28], 207, [9], 257-387, [1] p. ;  20 cm. (4to) 
<br/><br/> "The second part" has separate t.p.  Signatures: A⁴ a-b⁴ c² B-2E⁴ 2L-3C⁴ 3D². 2E3 blank. 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>agr16000992  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bees--Early works to 1800.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QL568.A6  / P8 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>638.12