A Quantity of Apiary and Beekeeping Books and Pamphlets

Including BIBBA and MinAg advisory leaflets

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This is a collection of books and pamphlets on apiary, bee-keeping, hives, honey etc.

Books:

1. Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee (George Allen & Unwin, 1912). Reprint, pocket edition. A reading copy with taped repairs to hinges and light rubbing to cloth.

2. M M Hooper, Common Sense Beekeeping (Link House, London, undated, probably late 1940s/1950s). A scruffy copy, good for reference.

3. G A Carter, Bees and Honey (Bee Craft, 1948). Covers faded but contents in strong readable condition.

4. Alexander Deans, A Bee Keepers Encyclopaedia (A Right Way Book, 1949). Covers dulled but contents very good.

5. Harald Doering, A Bee is Born (Sterling, New York, 1962). Fair, a reading copy in a very scruffy wrapper.

6. L E Snelgrove, Swarming, Its Control and Prevention (Published by the Author, 1963). A good, solid copy.

Pamphlets:

1. Bumblebee Distribution Maps Scheme: Guide to the British Species (Parts I & II) by D V Alford (Entomologist's Gazette, 1970 & 1971). Very good.

2. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Advisory Leaflets [7], from the 1960s: No 306 Foul Brood; No 347 Beeswax from the Apiary; No 362 Examination of Bees for Acarine Disease; No 411 The W.B.C. Hive; No 472 Nosema Disease; No 574 Beekeeping—Making an Increase; Bulletin 100: Diseases of Bees (1959).

3. BIBBA pamphlets [16]: No 3 Hive Records with Brief Instructions by Beowulf Cooper & Ken Ibbotson (1978); No 4 Down by the Sally Garden by Beowulf Cooper (1966); No 5 Bees, Honey & Weather by G W Hurst and Beowulf Cooper (1967); No 6 Natural Honey. A new class for honey shows? by Beowulf Cooper (1967)—two copies; No 7 Village Bees, the native and near-native bees of Britain and Ireland by Beowulf Cooper (1968); Make Your Own Skep and Revive a Lost Art by Rev E Nobbs (1969); No 9 Honey-Bees for Top Fruit Pollination by Dr W Heydecker (1969); No 10 Raise Your Own Queens by the Punch and Cage Method by Richard Smailes (two copies 1970 and a 1977 2nd edition); No 11 Pure Honey, Variations, Chemistry amd Use by Harold Inglesent and Paul Wix (1971); No 12 Make Your Own Glass Quilt and Curtail Hive Disturbance by John K Mobley (1973); No 15 Drawings for the Standard Section Mininuc by Edward L Gough (1974); No 16 Drawings for Minicosies, Insulated Covers for Standard Section Mininuc by Edward L Gough (1974); No 17 The Standard Section Mininuc Assembly Instructions by Edward L Gough & Robert J Munn (1976); No 20 Drawings for the National Hive in Metric and Imperial Measurements by Frank Walsh (1976).

4. Approx 10 loose bits of ephemera including Taylors Catalogue of Beekeeping Equipment (1981 & 1983); a part used notebook by a beekeeper; P E Norris' About Honey; John Shida's Beekeeping; Flowers for Bees Month by Month; BIBBA News 1977, etc

Condition

All items are showing some wear including foxing and creasing. Some are in very good condition, others have been well-read and show considerable use. The images should give an overall impression, but essentially this is a good reference collection.