THORLEY, John. Melissologia. The Female Monarchy; being an enquiry into the nature, order, and government of bees, those admirable, instructive, and useful insects, London: for the author and sold by N. Thorley and J. Davidson, 1744, 8°, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece and 4 plates, one folding (some offsetting, F7 affected by small paper fault), contemporary speckled calf (spine rather worn), ownership inscription of H. Barnes, 1746.