The ABC of Bee Culture; A Cyclopaedia of Every Thing Pertaining to the Care of the Honey-Bee; Bees, Honey, Hives, Implements, Honey-Plants, etc; Facts Gleaned from Experience of Thousands of Bee Keepers All Over Our Land; And Afterward Verified by Practical Work in Our Own Apiary
by Root, A. I
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- Hardcover
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Medina: A. I. Root 1891, 52nd . (4to) Good, no dust jacket. 404pp. Burgundy cloth with black lettering and gilt device on the front cover. Patterned endpapers, full-page engravings, illustrations, photographs, index, appendix. Covers are soiled and lightly bowed, there is a thin 3 / 4-inch chip to the spine, and there is a previous owner's ink stamp on the front free endpaper. "In preparing this work I have been much indebted to the books of Langstroth, Quinby, Prof. Cook, King, and some others, as well as to all the Bee-Journals; but, more than to all these, have I been indebted to the thousands of friends scattered far and wide, who had so kindly furnished the fullest particulars in regard to all the new improvements, as they have come up, in our beloved branch of rural industry" - from the Preface by A. I. Root. (Permaculture, Beekeeping, Bees, Honeybees, Permaculture).
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- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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- Title
- The ABC of Bee Culture; A Cyclopaedia of Every Thing Pertaining to the Care of the Honey-Bee; Bees, Honey, Hives, Implements, Honey-Plants, etc; Facts Gleaned from Experience of Thousands of Bee Keepers All Over Our Land; And Afterward Verified by Practical Work in Our Own Apiary
- Author
- Root, A. I
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- A. I. Root
- Place of Publication
- Medina
- Keywords
- Permaculture, Beekeeping, Bees, Honeybees, Permaculture, Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature and Environment;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
About Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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