The true Amazons, or, The monarchy of bees
Subtitle: being a new discovery and improvement of those wonderful creatures, wherein is experimentally demonstrated, I. That they are all governed by a queen, II. The amazing beauty and dignity of her person, III. Her extraordinary authority and power, IV. Their exceeding loyalty and unparallelled 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
By: by Joseph Warder of Croydon, physician
Edition: The second edition with additions.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: Printed for John Pemberton and W. Taylor
Published: 1713
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Bees; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Monarchy of bees
Notes: Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.