Beekeeping books

NHBS Environment Bookstore
Is the leading supplier of books and wildlife equipment for people all over the world passionate and expert in science, conservation and wildlife. They have an extraordinary range of books about bees, wasps, bumblebees - and all things natural history.
2-3 Wills Road, Totnes, Devon TQ9 5XN, UK
Tel: 01803 865913
www.nhbs.com

C Arden (Bookseller)
Radnor House, Church St, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DQ
Tel: 01497 820471
New, out-of-print and scarce books on natural history, bardening and botany (and of course, hundreds of titles about bees and beekeeping).
www.ardenbooks.co.uk

Bee Books New & Old (BBNO)
Ash View, Tump Lane, Much Birch, Herefordshire HR2 8HP
phone: 01432 840529
www.honeyshop.co.uk/bbno.html

Northern Bee Books
Scout Bottom Farm, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge HX7 5JS
Tel: 01422 882751
New website - www.GroovyCart.co.uk/beebooks
www.beedata.com/beebooks.htm
Northern Bee Books Catalogue

First Pasture - Land & Country Books
22 Fawley Close, Willenhall, Wolverhampton WV13 3ER
Titles on farming, smallholding, self sufficiency and kitchen gardening, equestrian, angling and many other rural related subjects (including beekeeping).
www.firstpasture.co.uk

International Bee Research Association (IBRA)
IBRA has a wide selection of Bee Books including the ever expanding list of our own publications. Details of how to join IBRA, recieve hard copies of Bee World and access to back copies of journals can be found on-line.
16 North Rd Cardff CF10 3DY
Tel: 02920 372409
email: bookshop@ibra.org.uk
www.ibra.org.uk
Ibra/Eva Crane Library
(now moved to The National Library of Wales)

Internet Archive
  - download older beekeeeping books for free!
The Internet Archive, a non-profit organisation, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. Try typing 'beekeeping' into the search.
www.archive.org

For example, the beautiful illustration [shown right] is from Practical Beekeeping by Ralph Benton (1907)
click here to view online or download as pdf

Beekeeping collection
at the National Library of Scotland
The Scottish Beekeepers' Association has deposited the Moir Rare Book Collection of 233 volumes relating to all aspects of beekeeping. It is one of the very finest collections of rare beekeeping books in the world, including items published as far back as 1525.
www.nls.uk/moir/index.html
click here for more information at SKBA

The Hive and the Honeybee
This is a complete bibliography of books and journals in The Hive and the Honeybee: Selections from the E. F. Phillips Beekeeping Collection at Mann Library, organized by both author and title.
http://bees.library.cornell.edu/b/bees/index.html

The Book Depository
click here for huge list of beekeeping books to buy (search by keyword, book title, author or ISBN)
click here for list of ebooks to download for free!