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DELLA ROCCA.
A complete treatise on bees, with a new method of governing them, as practised in Syra, an island in the Archipelago. Paris, Imprimerie de Monsieur, Bleuet père, 1790. 3 vol. in-8. Full contemporary basane, spine with ornate faux-nerve, havana title-pieces and green tomaison. XXXII ff, 462 pp, [2] ff, 1 plate ; VIII ff, 500 pp, 3 plates ; VIII ff, 532 pp, 1 plate.
Original edition well completed with the view of the Island of Syra engraved by Godefroy of the Imperial and Royal Academy of Vienna, as well as the four folding plates on beekeeping techniques.
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