1st Edition
History of Four Footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects Volume 3 Insects
Edited By Edward Topsell
Copyright 1967
272 Pages
by
Routledge
First Published in 1967. This is final volume in a set of three of The History of Four- footed Beasts taken principally from the ‘ Historite Animalium’ of Conrad Gesner. During the first decade of the seventeenth century, when Topsell prepared his translation, zoology had just become a science. It has a unique place: It was the first major book on animals printed in Great Britain in English; and it appeared at the last moment in history when all zoological knowledge since antiquity could be summarized sympathetically, before it was rendered a curiosity by the many new discoveries soon to come.
Introduction, Book 1: Of the names, Description and Differences of Bees; Of the Politick, Ethick and Oeconomick Virues of Bees; Of the Creation, Generation and Propagniation of Bees, Of the Use of Bees, Of the Name, Difference and use of Honey; Concerning Wax, Bee-Glew, Dregs of Wax, Pisseros, Bees-Bread and of their Nature and use; Of Drones and Thieves; Of Wasps; ...to Of Winged Puniw or Wall-Louse; Book II Concerning Catterpillers to Of Water-Worms.
Biography
Edward Topsell
