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Bee culture

Images

  • A beekeeper attempting to keep lizards away from his hives; a hand emerging from the clouds. Woodcut, 1502.
  • Varroa destructor, honey bee mite, SEM
  • The honey-bee; its natural history, physiology and management / By Edward Bevan.
  • The honey-bee; its natural history, physiology and management / By Edward Bevan.
  • Apiculture: an advertising flyer for a patent beehive. Engraving after Knight & Thompson.
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Catalogue

    • Ephemera

    Yesterday a hive of bees swarm'd at a tradesman's house in Kentish town...

    | Date: [1763]
    • Ephemera

    The bee : the bee doth extract out the sweets... / Louisa Broughton.

    | Date: [1774]
    • Books

    Tēṉī vaḷarttalum teḷḷaṟivuṟuttalum / P. Cēṉaiyaṉ.

    Cēṉaiyaṉ, P. | Date: 1939
    • Ephemera

    Observations on bees / The Saturday Magazine.

    | Date: 1843
    • Books

    A new orchard & garden: or, The best way for planting, graffing, and to make any ground good for a rich orchard ... With the country house-wifes garden for herbs of common use ... As also the husbandry of bees, with their several uses and annoyances: all being the experience of forty and eight years of labour; and now the sixth time corrected, and much enlarged, / By William Lawson. Whereunto is newly added the art of propagating plants, with the true ordering of all manner of fruits, in their gathering, carrying home, and preservation.

    Lawson, William, active 1618. | Date: 1676
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