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1. The feminine monarchie, or, The historie of bees: shewing their admirable nature, and properties, their generation, and colonies, their government, loyaltie, art, industrie, enemies, warres, magnanimitie, &c. : together with the right ordering of them from time to time: and the sweet profit arising thereof.

Creator:
Butler, Charles, d. 1647.
Collection:
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
Hive and the Honeybee
Location:
Albert R. Mann Library
Publisher:
Printed by John Haviland for Roger Jackson
Publication Place:
London
Date:
1623
Format:
Book

2. The reformed common-wealth of bees: presented in severall letters and observations to Sammuel Hartlib ; with The reformed Virginian silk-worm, containing many excellent and choice secrets, experiments, and discoveries for attaining of national and private profits and riches.

Creator:
Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.
Collection:
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
Hive and the Honeybee
Location:
Albert R. Mann Library
Publisher:
Printed for G. Calvert
Publication Place:
London
Date:
1655
Format:
Book

10. Mysteries of bee-keeping explained: being a complete analysis of the whole subject : consisting of the natural history of bees, directions for obtaining the greatest amount of pure surplus honey with the least possible expense, remedies for losses given, and the science of "luck" fully illustrated--the result of more than twenty years' experience in extensive apiaries

Creator:
Quinby, M. 1810-1875.
Collection:
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
Hive and the Honeybee
Location:
Albert R. Mann Library
Publisher:
C. M. Saxton
Publication Place:
New York
Date:
1853
Format:
Book

14. The bee-keeper's text-book with alphabetical index: being a complete reference book on all practical subjects connected with the culture of the honey bee in both common and movable-comb hives, giving minute directions for the management of bees in every month of the year, and illustrating the nucleus system of swarming and Italian queen rearing

Creator:
King, N. H.
Collection:
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
Hive and the Honeybee
Location:
Albert R. Mann Library
Publisher:
Viets & Savage
Publication Place:
Cleveland
Date:
1864
Format:
Book

16. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopædia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey bee, bees, honey, hives, implements, honey plants, &c., &c. : compiled from facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee- keepers, all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary

Creator:
Root, A. I. 1839-1923.
Collection:
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
Hive and the Honeybee
Location:
Albert R. Mann Library
Publisher:
A. I. Root
Publication Place:
Medina, Ohio
Date:
1879
Format:
Book

52. A dictionary of diet: being a practical treatise on all pabulary and nutritive substances, solid and fluid with their compounds, used as food; including the observations of eminent philosophers, physicians, gastronomers, and other industrious inquirers into the true science of eating, drinking and preserving health, through the medium of well regulated and easily digestible food, founded on the known specific properties of all kinds of human ailment : with the means of prevention and cure of the diseases resulting from a deranged condition of the organs of digestion, etc., etc.

Creator:
Forsyth, J. S.
Collection:
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History
Location:
Albert R. Mann Library
Publisher:
John Churchill,
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book