A further discovery of bees. Treating of the nature, government, generation and preservation of the bee. With the experiments and improvements arising from the keeping them in transparent boxes, instead of straw-hives. Also proper directions (to all such as keep bees) as well to prevent their robbing in straw-hives, as their killing in the colonies
A 1679 London bee-keeping treatise by Moses Rusden, printed for the author and H. Million, aimed at people who keep bees in transparent boxes or straw hives. The single picture is a hand-ruled octagonal plan of a honeycomb-like grid of hexagonal cells, labelled with words such as 'Bees', 'Hony' and 'Drones', annotated 'Page 66, 67, Chp. 9'. A designer could take its tessellated hexagon lattice and its plain, schematic diagram style as a source for geometric pattern or modular structure.
