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A56300 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 ... Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626. 1657 (1657) Wing P4224; ESTC R6282 278,822 394

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