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102 - Beekeeping. A Treatise on Honeybees, or Rules for Their Proper Management, and How to Derive Considerable Profit from the Harvest of Wax and Honey. Paris, [Jean de La Caille], 1690.
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Beekeeping. A Treatise on Honeybees, or Rules for Their Proper Management, and How to Derive Considerable Profit from the Harvest of Wax and Honey. Paris, [Jean de La Caille], 1690. In-12 format, [5] leaves, 228 pp., illustrated with 2 woodcut plates depicting bees, beehives, and various beekeeping tools. A rare early edition of this practical treatise on beekeeping, devoted to the management of apiaries, the care of bees, and methods for improving the production of honey and wax. The author remains anonymous. Barbier attributes it, though without certainty, to Abbé Imette, parish priest of Courpalais.
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