The true amazons: or, the monarchy of bees. : Being a new discovery and improvement of those wonderful creatures. Wherein is experimentally demonstrated, I. That they are all govern'd by a queen. II. The amazing beauty and dignity of her person. III. Her extraordinary authority and power. IV. Their exceeding loyalty and unparallel'd love to their queen. V. Their sex, male and female. VI. The manner of their breeding. VII. Their wars. VIII. Their enemies, with directions plain and easy how to manage them, both in straw-hives and transparent boxes; so that with laying out but four or five pounds, in three or four years, if the summers are kind, you may get thirty or forty pounds per annum. Also how to make the English wine or mead, equal if not superior to the best of other wines /
Warder, Joseph,active 1688-1718.
London, : printed for John Pemberton, at the Buck and Sun, over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, and William Taylor, at the Ship in Pater-noster-row.,
1720..
With a half-title.
The pages of sig. H are incorrectly numbered: the numeration of every other pair of pages being repeated.
The preliminary leaves incorporate an article on beekeeping from the October 4, 1875 issue of The Standard.
ESTC
Bees
Bee culture
Mead
Wine and wine making