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    <title>theatre of politicall flying-insects</title>
    <subTitle>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</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Purchas, Samuel</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">-approximately 1658</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">London</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Printed by R.I. for Thomas Parkhurst, to be sold at his shop ...</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1657</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>[28], 207, [9], 257-387, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)</extent>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Samuel Purchas ...</note>
  <note>"The second part" has separate t.p.</note>
  <note>Signatures: A⁴ a-b⁴ c² B-2E⁴ 2L-3C⁴ 3D². 2E3 blank.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Bees</topic>
    <topic>Early works to 1800</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">QL568.A6 P8</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">638.12</classification>
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