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 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
By: by Joseph Warder of Croydon, physician
Contributors: Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714, dedicatee; Hulsberg, Henry, -1729, engraver
Edition: The third 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: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1716
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Honeybee; Early works to 1800; Bee culture; Queen rearing; Bees; Anatomy; Mead; Wine and wine making
Other titles: True Amazons; Monarchy of bees
Notes: With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; signed: "H. Hulsbergh sc."

Dedicated to Queen Anne.

Title enclosed within a double rule border.

Woodcut head-piece and initial.

Errata: leaf A8r.

Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.