Avebury, Lord. Ants, Bees, and Wasps. A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social Hymenoptera.
15th. Rev. Ed. Pub. Kegan Paul. 1902 pp.xvii, 436 with 5 colour plates, b/w. illus. and 2 fold-out plates. 8vo. Hardback. Leonard Harrison Matthews (1901-86) copy with his signature, the leading academic, zoologist and prolific author who wrote British Mammals and Mammals in the British Isles in Collins’ New Naturalist series. Thor. vg. hardback with gently sunned spine.
£50.00 [ref: 61918]

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Badger, M. Heather Honey. A Comprehensive Guide.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Bee Craft Ltd. 2023 pp.384 with colour photos and b/w. illus. throughout. Royal 8vo. Softback. New.
A truly comprehensive guide providing detailed advice for successful heather honey production.
£30.00 [ref: 70585]

Bagster, Samuel. The Management of Bees. With a description of the “Ladies’ Safety Hive”.
3rd. Ed. Pub. Charles Griffin & Co. [1865] pp.xvi, 240 with 40 b/w. illus. 8vo. Hardback. Early signature to title page. Internal hinges tender. Light coloured splash mark to top-edge of text block, to title-page and prelims. Occ. light spotting and other marks internally, cords a little stretched, o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards good to vg. with gilt decoration and lettering to spine, showing some wear to extremities including a small split to the outer casing at the top of the spine. (Harding 222).
£75.00 [ref: 71191]

Bagster, Samuel. The Management of Bees. with a description of the “Ladies’ Safety Hive”.
1st. Ed. Pub. Bagster & Pickering. 1834 pp.xx, 244 with hand-coloured frontis. and 40 b/w. illus. in text. Small 8vo. Hardback. Minor spotting to ends and a very minimal amount elsewhere internally o/w. contents exceptionally clean and fine. Original decorated cloth binding nr. fine. A super copy. (Harding 222).
The frontispiece depicts ‘splendid [hand] coloured drawings of queen, worker and drone, ‘magnified’ and also life size’ (Harding).
£275.00 [ref: 72766]

Bagster, Samuel. The Management of Bees. with a description of the “Ladies’ Safety Hive”.
1st. Ed. Pub. Bagster & Pickering. 1834 pp.xx, 244 with hand-coloured frontis. and 40 b/w. illus. in text. Small 8vo. Hardback. Charming inscription to front paste down dated August 23rd 1846. Corner neatly excised from ffep. Light spotting to ends and very occ. internally o/w. contents exceptionally clean and fine. Original decorated cloth binding with light wear to extremities o/w. fine. (Harding 222).
The frontispiece depicts ‘splendid [hand] coloured drawings of queen, worker and drone, ‘magnified’ and also life size’ (Harding).
£225.00 [ref: 71235]

Bailey, L. Honey Bee Pathology.
1st. Ed. Pub. Academic Press. 1981 pp.viii, 124 with b/w. figs. 8vo. Hardback. Contents fine. Pictorial boards a little sunned and gently bumped o/w thor. vg. Sought after.
Separated into ten chapters being; The Honey Bee; Viruses; Bacteria; Fungi; Protozoa; Parasitic Mites; Insect and Nematode Parasites; Disorders of Uncertain Origin and Non-infectious Diseases and The Treatment of Bee Diseases.
£45.00 [ref: 69708]

Bailey, L. The Effect of the Number of Honey Bee Colonies on their Honey Yields and Diseases.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Central Association of Bee-Keepers. 1984 pp.16 with b/w. figs. 8vo. Fine softback.
The text of a lecture given to the Central Association of Bee-keepers in May 1984.
£3.50 [ref: 69230]

Bailey, Leslie. Infectious Diseases of the Honey-Bee.
1st. Ed. Pub. Land Books. 1963 pp.175 with b/w. photos. and figs. 8vo. Ex-Lib. A vg. plus hardback in vg. plus dw.
This authoritative book, the first of its kind to appear in English, will be of immense value to the practising bee-keeper and to the student of insect pathology.
£22.00 [ref: 73033]

Bailey, Leslie. Infectious Diseases of the Honey-Bee.
1st. Ed. Pub. Land Books. 1963 pp.175 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. Very minor ink smudge to margin of p.66 o/w., a fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
This authoritative book, the first of its kind to appear in English, will be of immense value to the practising bee-keeper and to the student of insect pathology.
£30.00 [ref: 71320]

Baldock, D. W. Bees of Surrey.
1st. Ed. Pub. Surrey Wildlife Trust. 2008 pp.303 with colour photos. and dist. maps. 8vo. Beekeeper’s bookplate. Fine hardback in fine dw.
This wonderful book covers all 222 different species recorded in Surrey to date illustrating nearly 100 of them in a series of superb colour photographs. In addition to information on the status and distribution of each species the book also contains chapters on the behaviour of bees, where to find them and how to identify them.
£15.00 [ref: 64207]