{"product_id":"british-bee-journal-1875-1889-volumes-iii-xvii","title":"The British Bee Journal \u0026 Bee-Keeper's Adviser, 1875–1889 — Volumes III–XVII (17 Books)","description":"\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003eA ONE-OFF ANTIQUARIAN COLLECTION\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe seventeen original Victorian books offered for sale are the actual volumes shown in the photograph. Offered together as one collection, with only one set available.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA remarkable collection of original Victorian editions of the \u003cem\u003eBritish Bee Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, preserving fifteen consecutive years of beekeeping history in seventeen uniformly bound books.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFounded in 1873 by Charles Nash Abbott, \u003cem\u003eThe British Bee Journal and Bee-Keeper's Adviser\u003c\/em\u003e was an influential forum for British apiculture. This substantial early sequence, Volumes III–XVII (1875–1889), records a formative period of innovation, experimentation and change in beekeeping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe journals document developments in movable-frame hives, honey extraction, comb foundation, queen rearing, bee breeding, bee diseases and colony management. Their pages also offer a contemporary account of Victorian beekeepers, inventors, naturalists and the emerging organised beekeeping movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeventeen books uniformly bound in dark cloth, with gilt-lettered spines and gilt rules. Certain numbered volumes are bound in two parts; these are not duplicate volumes. Some rubbing, marking and wear consistent with age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBibliographical details:\u003c\/strong\u003e London, 1875–1889. Volumes III–XVII, fifteen consecutive numbered volumes in seventeen bound books. Original nineteenth-century periodicals. Volumes I and II are not included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe buyer will receive the exact seventeen books shown in the photograph, and there is only one collection available.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALIUS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59781051711836,"sku":"SH-0001","price":15661.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0856\/5863\/2540\/files\/seventeen-stack-of-vin_tish-bee-journals-copy-3.webp?v=1793975878","url":"https:\/\/www.northernbeebooks.co.uk\/en-za\/products\/british-bee-journal-1875-1889-volumes-iii-xvii","provider":"NORTHERN BEE BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}