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.
With online tools like Google Translate, the contents can be interpreted.
£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. Bookplate. 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 a little loss to margin. Otherwise contents fine. Original 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.
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]

Abbott, Charles Nash (et al). The British Bee Journal and Bee-Keeper’s Advisor. Volumes 1 to 58 (incl.).
1st. Ed. Pub. British Bee Journal. 1873-1930 Fifty-eight volume run. 8vo/large 8vo. Hardbacks. Bindings mostly original cloth with some exceptions. Nine weekly parts not present in Vol. 56. Contents in vg. to fine condition throughout. Bindings in vg. to nr. fine condition - hinges a little tender in three volumes. A very useable set. Such large runs rarely become available.
A fascinating and very useful insight into the practices and the state of beekeeping from the mid-Victorian period, through the turn of the Century, the First World War and on to the early 1930s.
£2,950.00 [ref: 55359]

Abson, D.J. The Wonders of a Bee Hive. A Nutshell in Verse.
1st. Ed. Pub. NBB 2002 6 pages with b/w. illus. 4to. A fine softback.
Beekeeping in a Nutshell Number 73. A charming verse guide to beekeeping throughout the year.
£3.00 [ref: 54725]