Sweet food made by bees mostly using nectar from flowers

Try A. Davis Ashley's honey balsam, for colds, coughs & croup / A. Davis Ashley.

Forrester's neuralgic mixture : cures toothache and neuralgia. never fails. one shilling bottles.

Pure manuka honey : product of New Zealand / Watson & Son ; distributed Planet Health.

Cough! Cough! Cough! Hack! Hack! Hack! Bark! Bark! Bark! : why do you cough?.

A few dainties, luxuries & good things that cause invalids to sit up and take cognisance / Fortnum & Mason Ltd.

Above, a bee presents a honeycomb to the Olympian gods in the clouds; below, bees are flying into and out of two wicker beehives; illustration of a fable. Etching by F. Barlow.

A celebration party given in honour of a good harvest. Engraving by B. Picart, 1733, after Virgil.

The perplexing 'Pineate' puzzle : it may take you hours to solve this puzzle but 'Pinenate' honey cough-syrup will stop a cough in a few minutes.

A bear overturns a barrel and is stung by bees; representing Aesop's fable. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

Dissertatio inauguralis medica de productis apum ... / submittit Franciscus Sebastianus Feyrtag de Festis.

1 drawing : pencil ; border 23 x 15.5 cm.

John the Baptist as a youth in the wilderness. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Bugiardini.

Narbonne honey... : as being particularly wholesome, preventing coughs, colds, fevers, consumptions, &c.

12 cuttings mounted on 1 sheet : illustrations

Facing bee hives. : the beehive : sunday lasta very extraordinary affair happen'd at St. Alban's ... : this day was published, in one volume, quarto, price 10s. 6d. sewed, a treatise on the management of bees ... : exhibition of bees. : from Pietra-Santa, in Tuscany, aug. 5. a few days since a serpent ... : Lewes, May 26. the folowing is a fact, and deemed worthy of remark ... : a swarm of bees followed a post chaise on Friday afternoon on the other side of Shooter's Hill ... : supreme Narbonne honey, just arrived at Hoy's Honey Warehouse ... : real Minorca and Narbonne honeym in the greatest perfection, just imported by Wildman ... : Edinburgh, Aug. 23. on thursday a bee-hive of uncommon size was weighed in the weigh-house here ... : an aparian society, for encouraging the increase of bees, is established at Exteter ... .

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Honey

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Dissertatio inauguralis medica de productis apum ... / submittit Franciscus Sebastianus Feyrtag de Festis.

Forrester's neuralgic mixture : cures toothache and neuralgia. never fails. one shilling bottles.

John the Baptist as a youth in the wilderness. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Bugiardini.

Narbonne honey... : as being particularly wholesome, preventing coughs, colds, fevers, consumptions, &c.

Honey

Images from the collections

Images about Honey

Works from the collections

Dissertatio inauguralis medica de productis apum ... / submittit Franciscus Sebastianus Feyrtag de Festis.

Forrester's neuralgic mixture : cures toothache and neuralgia. never fails. one shilling bottles.

John the Baptist as a youth in the wilderness. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Bugiardini.

Narbonne honey... : as being particularly wholesome, preventing coughs, colds, fevers, consumptions, &c.

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