📚 Beekeeping

The apiary as husbandry: managing the colony, its seasons, and the honey it produces.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject bee culture in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture	A. I. Root	1877	62
	The A B C of bee culture	A. I. Root	1880	38
	Bramble-bees and others	Jean-Henri Fabre	1915	30
	Manual of the apiary	Albert John Cook	1876	22
	Beekeeping for dummies	Howland Blackiston	2002	11
	The Honey Bus	Meredith May	2019	10
	Fifty years among the bees	Charles C. Miller	1911	9
	First lessons in beekeeping	Camille Pierre Dadant	1917	9
	The golden throng	Edwin Way Teale	1940	9
	How to keep bees	Anna Botsford Comstock	1905	8
	The beekeeper's handbook	Diana Sammataro	1978	8
	Building Beehives for Dummies	Howland Blackiston	2012	8
	The art of bee-keeping	William Hamilton	1945	7
	Robbing the bees	Holley Bishop	2005	7
	The bee-master of Warrilow	Tickner Edwardes	1907	6
	The Hive	Bee Wilson	2004	6
	Maria Thun Biodynamic Calendar	Matthias Thun	2016	6
	A modern bee-farm and its economic management	Samuel Simmins	1887	5
	A year among the bees	Charles C. Miller	1891	5
	Beekeeping	Everett Franklin Phillips	1915	5
	The practical bee guide	Joseph Robert Garven Digges	1943	5
	Guide to Bees and Honey	Ted Hooper	1977	5
	Queen-rearing in England	F. W. L. Sladen	1982	5
	A book of bees	Sue Hubbell	1988	5
	Hive management	Richard E. Bonney	1990	5
	Beekeeping For Dummies	David Wiscombe	2011	5
	The farmer's manual	Frederick Butler	1819	4
	Der Vollständige Bienen-Wärter, oder, Nützliche Anweisungen zur Bienen-Zucht	John Solomon Wiestling	1819	4
	Bees & bee-keeping	Frank Richard Cheshire	1886	4
	Bee-keeping for all	Tickner Edwardes	1923	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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