Apiary Record Book and Guide.
Pub. Bee Craft. [c.1960] pp.71. 32mo. Some notes to contents. Feint, scattered foxing to endpapers. A thor. vg. hdbk. Scarce.
Book divided into months, with room for notes, and a guide to various subjects at rear: Recipes, Formulae, Recognition of Worker Brood, Brood Changes, Duty Ages - Approximate, Cleaning Apparatus, Disease Symptoms - Field Diagnosis, Brood Disease Symptoms - Field Diagnosis, Stings, Legal and Honey Plants and Trees.
£40.00 [ref: 53166]

Mehialaistalous.
1st. Ed. Pub. Finland. 1964 A total of 5 copies of this Journal from this period. 8vo. Softbacks. Text in Finnish. All in vg. condition.
With online tools like Google Translate, the contents can be interpreted.
£20.00 [ref: 54015]

The Japanese Bee Journal.
1st. Ed. Pub. Japanese Bee Journal. 1963-65 A total of 4 copies of this Journal from this period. 8vo. Softbacks. Text in Japanese. All in vg. condition.
£20.00 [ref: 54014]

Tidsskrift for Biavl.
1st. Ed. Pub. Danmarks Biavlerforening. 1964-65 A total of 5 copies of this Journal from this period. 8vo. Softbacks. Text in Danish. All in vg. condition.
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£20.00 [ref: 54016]

29. Butler, Colin G. The World of the Honeybee. The New Naturalist.
1st. Ed. Pub. Collins. 1954 pp.xiv, 226 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Feint, scattered foxing to fore-edge of text block o/w. a thor. vg. hdbk. in vg. dw. Not price clipped.
£38.00 [ref: 53186]

29. Butler, Colin G. The World of the Honeybee. The New Naturalist.
1st. Ed. Pub. Collins. 1954 pp.xiv, 226 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Neat bookplate to ffep. Some scattered foxing to fore-edge of text block. A thor. vg. hdbk. in vg. dw. Price clipped.
£50.00 [ref: 53187]

A Country Curate (Filleul, P.V.M.). The English Bee-keeper; Or, suggestions for the practical management of Amateur and Cottage Apiaries.
1st. Ed. Pub. Francis & John Rivington. 1851 pp.xvi, 212 with b/w. illus. and 8-page publisher's catalogue. 8vo. Hardback. Ownership stamp to front-pastedown, ffep and title and further neat ownership insc. dated 1857. Contents in fine condition. Original blind decorated boards in vg. condition showing some wear to spine & lightly marked. Scarce. Harding 271.
Describes a window apiary. Filleul talks about all aspects of country beekeeping from establishment, stocking, use of straw hives & wooden boxes to feeding bees and the equipment needed.
£175.00 [ref: 54674]

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A.L.O.E. (A lady of England) pseud., (Tucker, Charlotte Maria). Wings And Stings: A Tale For The Young.
Pub. T. Nelson and Sons. 1885 pp.108 with 10 hand-coloured plates. 8vo. Hardback. End-papers showing darkening. Minor foxing. Two leaves with loss to margin. Otherwise contents fine. Orig. decorated cloth boards in vg. condition, a little spine lean. Harding 284.
Copies of this work tend to have black and white plates and sometimes, a hand-coloured frontispiece. This copy has both the hand-coloured frontispiece and a further 9 hand-coloured plates. A beekeeping tale for children by the prolific Victorian writer Charlotte Marie Tucker, who wrote under the pseudonym A.L.O.E. (A lady Of England).
£80.00 [ref: 55153]

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Abbott, C.P. Queen Breeding for Amateurs.
Pub. Bee Craft. 1947 pp. 48 with photographs. Card covers lightly tanned and marked otherwise a vg. copy. Softback.
£10.00 [ref: 47076]

Abbott, C.P. Queen Breeding for Amateurs.
1st. Ed. Pub. Bee Craft. 1947 pp.48 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Small, neat address label to ffep. A vg. softback.
£10.00 [ref: 52239]