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A new plan for speedily increasing the number of bee-hives in Scotland; and which may be extended, with equal success, to England, Ireland, America, To Any Other Part Of The World Capable Of Producing Flowers. By James Bonner, Bee-Master, author of practical warping made east, &c.
Bonner, James, writer on bee-keeping.Date: [1795]- Books
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The antient bee-master's farewell; or, full and plain directions for the management of bees to the greatest advantage; disclosing further improvements of the hives, boxes, and other instruments, to facilitate the operations; especially that of separating double and treble hives or boxes, with certainty and safety, without injuring the bees; interspersed with new but important observations: the whole studiously adapted to general use; with an appropriate method for the curious. Also brief remarks on Schirach, and other distinguished apiators on the continent. Deduced from a series of experiments during thirty years. Illustrated with plates. By John Keys, of Bee-Hall, near Pembroke.
Keys, John.Date: 1796- Books
The natural history of bees. Comprehending the uses and economical management of the British and foreign honey-bee; together with the known wild species. Illustrated by thirty-six [i.e. thirty-two] plates coloured from nature, with portrait and memoir of Huber / [James Duncan].
Duncan, James, 1804-1861.Date: 1840- Books
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The feminine monarchy; or the history of bees; shewing their admirable nature and property, their Generation and Colony, their Government, Loyalty, Art, Industry, Enemies, Wars, Magnanimity, &c. Together, with the right ordering of them from time to time, and the sweet Profit arising thereof. Written in Latin by Charles Butler, and now translated into English by W. S. To which is added some observations of silk worms, and how to manage and keep them to Advantage, never before made publick.
Butler, Charles, -1647.Date: 1704- Pictures
A fruiting plant, possibly of the Compositae family, with an enlarged tufted seed and bee. Watercolour.
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A proposal for the increase of apiaries in Ireland, addressed to the Dublin Society. By Sir James Caldwell, F.R.S.
Caldwell, James, Sir, -1784.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Pictures
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A masonic tribute to the duchess of Leinster, a governess of Lock Penitentiary, Dublin: she is attended by Virtue and Fame. Etching by H. Brocas, 1794.
Brocas, Henry, 1762-1837.Date: [1794]Reference: 25215i- Pictures
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A celebration party given in honour of a good harvest. Engraving by B. Picart, 1733, after Virgil.
Date: 1733Reference: 497694i- Books
La gelée royale des abeilles : son histoire et ses propriétés, sa composition, ses utilisations en diététique et thérapeutique humaines / [B. de Belvefer].
Belvefer, B. de.Date: 1958- Books
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The American bee keeper's manual. Being a practical treatise on the history and domestic economy of the honey-bee ... / by T.B. Miner.
Miner, T. B.Date: 1849- Books
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The practical bee-master: in which will be shewn how to manage bees either in straw hives or in boxes, Without Destroying Them, And With More Ease, Safety, And Profit, Than BY Any Method Hitherto Made Public, Viz. I. To manage Bees in Straw Hives, with new constructed Tops, at a small expence, as profitably and easily as with Boxes. II. In Boxes of an improved and cheap Construction, easily to be managed, and with so little Disturbance to the Bees, that all the necessary operations may be performed without any Danger. III. To catch and secure the Queen, or to fix her and a Swarm to any place you please. IV. To cause Bees to quit a Hive, and to be so tractable as to suffer themselves to be mandled without Stinging. V. Several Methods of Swarming Bees Artificially. VI. To cause a Swarm to work in separated Glasses, without any Hive; or in globular or other glasses, so that pure Virgin Honey may be taken when in its utmost Perfection. Vii. To prevent or cause Bees to swarm. Viii. To take the Honey and yet preserve the Bees, with common Hives only. IX. To unite Casts, Swarms, and Stocks. X. A Catalogue of, and Observations on, the most proper Flowers or Pasturage for Bees. XI. An easy and certain Method of preserving Stocks in Winter and cold Springs. XII. Several new and improved Methods of extracting the Wax from the Combs, two of them without either Straining or Pressing; and each by a single Operation: but more perfectly, and with far less. Trouble and Expence of Fuel than hitherto practiced. Together With Such Full And Plain Directions That the meanest Cottager may attain this profitable Art Without Difficulty, and at a small Expence; interspersed with occasional strictures on Mr. Thomas Wildman's Treatise on bees: With Several New Discoveries And Improvements, The Result Of AtLong Experience, And Deduced From Actual Experiments, by John Keys, Bee - Master.
Keys, John.Date: [1780]- Books
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Le gouvernement admirable, ou, La republique des abeilles : avec les moyens d'en tirer une grande utilité ... / [J.B. Simon].
Simon, Jean Baptiste.Date: 1740- Books
Anatomy and physiology of the honeybee / by R.E. Snodgrass.
Snodgrass, R. E. (Robert E.), 1875-1962.Date: 1925- Ephemera
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Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowls and for the general cure of their diseases : containing the natures, breeding, choice, use, feeding, and curing of the diseases of all manner of cattel ... shewing further the whole art of riding ... also, approved rules for the cramming and fatting all sorts of poultry and fowls ... together with the use and profit of bees, the manner of fish-ponds, and the taking of all sorts of fish : gathered together for the general good and profit of the common-wealth.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: MDCLXXXIII [1683]- Books
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The true amazons: or, the monarchy of bees. Being a new discovery and improvement of those wonderful creatures. Wherein is Experimentally Demonstrated, I. That they are all govern'd by a Queen. II. The Amazing Beauty and Dignity of her Person. III. Her extraordinary Authority and Power. IV. Their exceeding Loyalty and unparallel'd Love to their Queen. V. Their Sex, Male and Female. VI. The Manner of their Breeding. Vii. Their Wars. Viii. Their Enemies, with Directions plain and easy how to manage them, both in Straw-Hives and Transparent Boxes; so that with laying out but Four or Five Pounds, in Three or Four Years, if the Summers are kind, you may get Thirty or Forty Pounds per Annum. Also how to make the English wine or mead, equal, if not superior, to the best of other Wines. By Joseph Warder of Croydon, Physician.
Warder, Joseph, active 1688-1718.Date: M.DCC.XXII. [1722]- Books
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A treatise on the management of bees; wherein is contained the natural history of those insects; with the various methods of cultivating them, both Ancient and Modern, and the improved Treatment of them. To which are added, the natural history of wasps and hornets, and the Means of destroying them. Illustrated with copper-plates. By Thomas Wildman.
Wildman, Thomas, -1781.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Pictures
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Queen Victoria, Benjamin Disraeli, Gladstone and John Bright depicted as bees around a beehive; representing the United Kingdom General Election of 1880. Engraving by W. Dewane after himself, March 1880.
Dewane, William.Date: March 1880Reference: 568609iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
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Ten bees (Apis species). Coloured etching by M. Harris, ca. 1766.
Harris, Moses, 1730-approximately 1788.Date: [1766]Reference: 42655i- Books
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Cheap and good husbandry : for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowls and for the general cure of their diseases.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1664- Books
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A theatre of politicall flying-insects. Wherein especially the nature, the worth, the work, the wonder, and the manner of right-ordering of the bee, is discovered and described / Together with discourses, historical, and observations physical concerning them. And in a second part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral, in three centuries upon that subject. By Samuel Purchase.
Purchas, Samuel, -approximately 1658.Date: 1657- Books
A sure way to order bees and fruit-trees, or, A compleat bee-master : shewing, I. The way to manage and encrease them. A platform for a bee-hive. What food ought to be propagated about the bee-houses. To raise large stocks of bees. Their errors that kill the drone-bees. II. To keep sheep and horses from from all diseases. III. Divers receipts in physick, and how every man may be his own doctor at small charge. IV. Directions for managing fruit-trees, &c. so that they shall never fail bearing fruit.
Date: [1726?]- Books
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Die Bienenzucht : nach ihrem jetzigen rationellen Standpunkte / bearbeitet von A. Baron v. Berlepsch und W. Vogel.
Berlepsch, August, Freiherr von, 1818-1877.Date: 1875- Books
Pchely i medi︠t︡sina / H.P. Ioĭrish.
Ioĭrish, N. (Naum)Date: 1974- Pictures
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Apiculture: scenes of bee-keeping and honey-gathering. Wood engraving, 1885.
Date: 1885Reference: 496754i