Huish, Robert. Bees: Their Natural History and General Management. Comprising a full and experimental examination of the various systems of native and foreign apiarians.
New Ed. Enl. Pub. Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper. 1842 pp.xxvii, 458 with some text illus., portrait frontis., plus 24-pages of publisher's adverts. 8vo. Hardback. Contents in fine condition. Original binding with blind tooled-decoration, lettered in gilt on spine, all in nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy. Harding 176.
Huish (1777-1850) attacked some of the ‘absurdities of M. Huber’ and in this edition, he added in his thoughts on the errors of Huber’s theory.
£300.00 [ref: 54968]

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Hunter, J. A Manual of Bee-keeping.
1st. Ed. Pub. Robert Hardwicke. 1875 pp.vii, 231 with frontis. illus. of a Bee Palace, text figs., and printed end-papers. 8vo. Hardback. Charming insc. to verso of frontis., dated June 1875. Occ. light spotting o/w. contents nr. fine. Original green cloth boards with gilt decoration in vg. plus condition. Harding 333.
The printed end-papers feature adverts for Neighbour’s Improved Cottage Beehive, The Cheshire Crystal Palace Prize Frame Hive, The Carr-Stewarton Hive, and Isaac Hale’s Ten Bar Frame Hives. John Hunter was Honorary Secretary of the BBKA.
£45.00 [ref: 71187]

Hunter, J. A Manual of Bee-keeping.
3rd. Rev. Enl. Ed. Pub. David Bogue. 1879 pp.viii, 220 with text figs., and printed end-papers plus 32-page publisher’s catalogue. 8vo. Hardback. Two neat ownership stamps. Contents nr. fine. A little text block lean. Original green cloth boards with gilt decoration in vg. plus condition. Harding 333.
The printed end-papers feature adverts for Neighbour’s Improved Cottage Beehive, The Cheshire Crystal Palace Prize Frame Hive, The Carr-Stewarton Hive, and Isaac Hale’s Ten Bar Frame Hives. John Hunter was Honorary Secretary of the BBKA.
£50.00 [ref: 71218]

Hunter, J. A Manual of Bee-keeping.
3rd. Rev. Enl. Ed. Pub. David Bogue. 1879 pp.viii, 220 with text figs. and printed end-papers plus 32-page publisher’s catalogue. 8vo. Hardback. Charming signature to half-title dated 1881. Spotting to ends, only occ. light spotting internally o/w. contents fine. Original green cloth boards with gilt decoration in vg. plus condition. This copy also comes with a David Bogue printed announcement (dated July 1st 1879) in which they announce both a change of business name and a move of their business premises from Piccadilly to Trafalgar Square in London. Harding 333.
The printed end-papers feature adverts for Neighbour’s Improved Cottage Beehive, The Cheshire Crystal Palace Prize Frame Hive, The Carr-Stewarton Hive, and Isaac Hale’s Ten Bar Frame Hives. John Hunter was Honorary Secretary of the BBKA.
£60.00 [ref: 71195]

Isaac, J. The General Apiarian. Wherein a simple, humane and advantageous method of obtaining the produce of bees without destroying them, is pointed out in a series of letters to a friend.
Fac. Ltd. Ed. Pub. BBNO. 2013 pp.128 plus 1 plate. 8vo. Hardback. Handsomely bound in green boards with gilt lettering and bee motifs. New. A very pleasing facsimile of the now very scarce 2nd Edition (1803). Limited edition of 50 copies, each hand-numbered.
“Isaac was Secretary to the Western Apiary Society, founded in 1799, to whom this book is inscribed. Both eds. [first and second] show a skep on the title page, and have a plate showing a bee house. The 1803 ed. has a description of the hive invented by Mr. James Roberts of Crediton, Devon, and an illustration of it on p.113” (Harding 156).
£20.00 [ref: 69458]

Isaac, J. The General Apiarian. Wherein a simple, humane and advantageous method of obtaining the produce of bees without destroying them, is pointed out in a series of letters to a friend.
Fac. Ltd. Ed. Pub. BBNO. 2013 pp.128 plus 1 plate. 8vo. Hardback. Handsomely bound in green boards with gilt lettering and bee motifs and housed in matching publisher’s slipcase. New. A very pleasing facsimile of the now very scarce 2nd Edition (1803). Limited edition of 50 copies, each hand-numbered.
“Isaac was Secretary to the Western Apiary Society, founded in 1799, to whom this book is inscribed. Both eds. [first and second] show a skep on the title page, and have a plate showing a bee house. The 1803 ed. has a description of the hive invented by Mr. James Roberts of Crediton, Devon, and an illustration of it on p.113” (Harding 156).
£30.00 [ref: 69459]

Jenyns, F.G. A Book About Bees.
Pub. Wells Gardner, Darton. 1888 pp.xxiv, 200 with charming b/w. frontis., text illus. plus 35-page publisher’s catalogue. Hardback. 8vo. Lower corner of text block bumped, occ. light spotting and a few minor marks o/w. contents fine. Original decorated cloth boards re-backed with most of original spine all in vg. condition with more recent endapapers. Scarce. (Harding 390).
Charming period illustrations - the frontispiece depicts ‘The Cottage Bee-keeper’s Home’.
£85.00 [ref: 71194]

Keys, John. A Treatise on the Breeding and Management of Bees. To the greatest adavantage. Interspersed with Important Observations, adapted to general use. Deduced from a series of Experiments during thirty years.
New Ed. Pub. London, Lackington. 1814 pp.xvi, 272 with two copper engraved plates. Small 8vo. Hardback. Contents in thor. vg. condition. More recently sympathetically rebound in dove grey boards to resemble the original binding, all in fine condition. Harding 154.
£150.00 [ref: 55407]

Langstroth, L.L. Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee. A Beekeepers Manual.
Rep. Ed. Pub. Root. 1977 pp.xvi, 378 with 18 b/w. plates at rear of text. Small 8vo. Fine hardback in decorated brown cloth boards.
This is a reprint of Langstroth’s classic work ‘The Hive and the Honey-Bee’ published in 1853.
£22.50 [ref: 71147]

Miner, T.B. The American Bee Keeper’s Manual. Being a Practical Treatise on the History and Domestic Economy of the Honey-bee.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Wiley, London. 1849 pp.iv, 349 with one page advert of Miner’s beekeeping supplies. Charming Victorian illustrated frontis., with further vignettes and illustrations in text. 8vo. Hardback. Contents show some darkening/foxing, largely to blank margins, otherwise in thor. vg. condition. Early signature of Chas. D.W. Terry to ffep. More recently, very handsomely rebound in half-calf leather with raised bands, gilt lettering & decoration to spine over marbled boards, all in fine condition. Scarce first edition. (Harding 266)
‘[The] best all-round American bee-book till then published’ (Walker).
£350.00 [ref: 53996]

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