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 By Joseph Warder of Croydon, physician.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warder, Joseph, active 1688-1718.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bees.

Physical Description:

xiii pages, 3 unnumbered pages,120 pages ; 8⁰

Edition:

The fourth edition corrected.

Place of Publication:

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.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

With a half-title.

The pages of sig. H correctly numbered; a variant has sig. H pages misnumbered, the numeration of every other pair of pages being repeated.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T63127.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.