McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

Natural history of the bee. Providence : H.H. Brown, printer, 1831.

Contributor:

Brown, Hugh Hale, 1792-1863, printer.

Publisher:

H.H. Brown, printer, 1831.

Notes:

In printed wrapper.
Title page vignette.
First sentence: "The Queen Bee. The royal insect passes three days in the egg, is five a worm, when the bees close its cell, and it immediately begins to cocoon, which is finished in twenty-four hours."
Includes 6 woodcuts.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: wood engraved frontispiece; 2 other illustrations. Buff pictorial wrappers. Berdan's. Hallowell, Maine. July/82. $18.00. Given to McGill 2001.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 10 x 7 cm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Bees.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Juvenile literature -- 1831.
Chapbooks -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- 19th century

Chapbook Category:

Geographical Description, Local History and Natural History

Call Number:

PN970 B769 N3 1831 Rare Books/Special Collections - Sheila R. Bourke Collection

Digital Collection:

McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Sponsor:

The McGill Library's Chapbook Collection was made possible through a generous donation from the Harold Crabtree Foundation.

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Link to this chapbook:

http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=7238

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_B769_N3_1831