01133cam a2200217 a 4500 agr16000992 DLC 20260227110938.0 800205s1657 enk 000 0 eng c agr16000992 U.S. Dept. of Agr. Library dcrb DLC DLC QL568.A6 P8 638.12 Purchas, Samuel, -approximately 1658. 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) "The second part" has separate t.p. Signatures: A⁴ a-b⁴ c² B-2E⁴ 2L-3C⁴ 3D². 2E3 blank. Bees Early works to 1800. 8459 8459