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[LAGRENEE (C.-L.)]. L'Art de gouverner les abeilles, et de f…
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[LAGRENEE (C.-L.)]. L'Art de gouverner les abeilles, et de f…
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[LAGRENEE (C.-L.)]. L'Art de gouverner les abeilles, et de fabriquer le miel et la cire sans méprises [...] Pour tirer des Abeilles tout le profit possible. Avec un Abrégé de ce que les Insectes offrent de plus curieux. Paris, Serviere, 1784. In- 12 of 250, [2] pp. front. and 3 h.-t. plates. Marbled beige basane, spine with 5 false rings, gilt title (Modern binding).
Second edition, enlarged, published the year after the original edition. A treatise on beekeeping dedicated to the parish priests of the kingdom. Choice of garden, species of bees, swarms, diseases, harvesting honey, wax, etc. Of particular note is the chapter on bee fights (and how to stop them), on the massacre of bumblebees, and a section devoted to "the most curious things about bees".
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