16thC
Thomas HYLL - A profitable Instruction of the perfite ordering of bees (1574)

17th & 18thC's
Charles BUTLER - Feminine Monarchie, or a Treatise concerning Bees (Latin edition)
(1609) (1634 Edition)
G MARKHAM - Cheape and Good Husbandry (1614)
John LEVETT - Ordering of Bees (1634)
REMNANT - Historie of Bees (1637)
S HARTLIB - His Legacie (1651)
Samuel PURCHAS Jnr - Theatre of Politicall Flying-Insects - The Bee is Discovered & Described
(1657 Thomas Parkhurst, London)
J WORLIDGE - Systema Agriculturae (1669)
John GEDDE - A New Discovery of an excellent Method of Bee-Houses (1675)
J WORLIDGE - Apiarium (1676)
J WORLIDGE - Systema Horticulturae (1677)
Moses RUSDEN - Further Discovery of Bees (1679)
Joseph WARDER - The True Amazons, or The Monarchy of Bees (1712)
Bernard de MANDEVILLE - Fable of Bees (Private Vices etc) (1714)
John GEDDE - The English Apairy or the Compleat Bee-Master (1721 Curll, Mears, Corbet)
Giles Auguste BAZIN - The Natural History of Bees (trans of Reaumur's work)
(1744 Knapton & Vaillant, London)
John THORLEY - Female Monarchy (1744)
R MAXWELL - Bee Master (1747)
J HILL - Virtues of Honey (1759)
Stephen WHITE : Collateral Bee-Boxes, or a New, Easy & Advantageous Method of Managing Bees
(1764 Davis & Rayners, London. 3rd Ed)
John MILLS - Essay on Management (1766)
Thomas WILDMAN - A Treatise on the Management of Bees (1768 for Author & Cadell)
John KEYS - The Practical Bee-Master (1780 London)
John KEYS - The Antient Bee-Master's Farewell, or Full & Plain Directions
for the Management of Bees (1796 London)
Jacob ISAAC - The General Apiarian (1799)

19thC
John KEYS : A Treatise on the Breeding & Management of Bees (1814 London. New Ed)
Robert HUISH : A Treatise on the Nature, Economy & Practical Management of Bees
(1815 London) (1817 Baldwin, Cradock & Joy. 2nd Ed)
The Cottager's Manual for the Management of His Bees (1822 London. 2nd Ed)
Edwin BEVAN : The Honeybee : its Natural History, Physiology & Management (1827)
Thomas NUTT : Humanity to Honeybees, or Practical Directions for the Management of Honey Bees
(1832 Leach, Wisbech) (1839 for Author, Wisbech. 5th Ed)
S BAGSTER : the Management of Bees (1834 London)
Francois HUBER : Observations of the Natural History of Bees (1841)
(for T Tegg, London. 2nd Ed)
William Charles COTTON : My Bee Book (1842 Rivington)
Henry TAYLOR : The Bee Keeper's Manual, or Practical Hints of the Honey Bee
(1846 Groombridge. 3rd Ed)
James SAMUELSON : The Honey Bee - Its Natural History, etc (1860 London)
W E SHUCKARD : British Bees (1866 Reeve, London)
AI ROOT et al : The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture (Medina, Ohio) (1877)
Alfred NEIGHBOUR : The Apiary, or Bees, Beehives & Bee Culture (1878 Kent, London. 3rd Ed)
Frank R CHESHIRE : Bees and Beekeeping - Scientific & Practical (1886-8 Upcott Gill) - 2 vols
S SIMMINS : The Modern Bee Farm and its Economic Management (1887 Brighton)

20thC
F L W SLADEN : The Humble Bee : Its Life History & How to Domesticate It (1912 Macmillan)
Annie D BETTS : Practical Bee Anatomy (1923 The Apis Club, Oxford)
Arthur M STURGES : Practical Beekeeping (1924)
Joseph R G DIGGES : The Practical Bee Guide - A Manual of Modern Beekeeping
(1928 Simpkin Marshall. 6th Ed)
W HERROD-HEMPSALL : Bee-Keeping New & Old Described with Pen & Camera
(1930-7 London) - 2 vols
R RIBBANDS : The Behaviour & Social Life of Honeybees (1953)
C G BUTLER : The World of the Honeybee (1958 Collins New Naturalist)
J B FREE & C G BUTLER : Bumble Bees (1968)

READING
Scottish Beekeeper's Assoc : Catalogue of the Moir Library (1951 Edinburgh)