Rev Digges (9 results)

Condition: Good. 1947. Fourteenth edition. 311 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white photographs and line illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has moderate edge wear with noticeable creasing and chipping. Moderate tanning and markings.

14th ed. 70th thousand. Good condition, dark green card covers with extensive rubbing, darkening and edge wear. Damage to most of spine but lettering still visible. Relavent cards and receipt tipped in, advert for 'densitaster' taped to title page. Frontispiece photograph of author. 173 figs, further b/w photos, index, adverts. 305pp. A classic.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Seventh Edition. 306pp + xviii adverts. External card cover is very worn with some loss. Internally clean & functional. Some burred/folded cnrs. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. A perfectly functional working copy. Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall. Book.

Red Cloth. Condition: Good/Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Eighth Edition. First published 1904, this is the eighth edition, fortieth thousand, 1936, viii, 305pp, 7pp adverts, illustrated with black & white photos and drawings, a few pages have smudge marks but no foxing, hinges a little weak, pencil diagram to rear inner endpaper, typewritten Gloucestershire Beekeepers' Association Rules for Library affixed to front endpapers, red cloth with white lettering to upper board, scuffed, repair to spine with a different shade of red cloth. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 Inches. Beekeeping.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This special edition of 'The Practical Bee Guide: A Manual of Modern Bee-Keeping' was written by the Reverend J.G. Digges, and first published in 1921, making it just shy of a century old. The book has sections on The Occupants of the Hive, The Bee in Spring, The Bee in Summer, The Bee in Autumn and Winter, Anatomy of the Bee, Different Races of Bees, Bee Products, Comb Foundation, and more. A wonderful old manual containing all the good, old-fashioned knowledge needed to begin your career in Apiculture, and a great place to start for those contemplating it. IMPORTANT NOTE - Please read BEFORE buying! THIS BOOK IS A REPRINT. IT IS NOT AN ORIGINAL COPY. This book is a reprint edition and is a perfect facsimile of the original book. It is not set in a modern typeface and has not been digitally enhanced. As a result, some characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections, blurring, or minor shadows in the page background. This book appears exactly as it did when it was first printed. DISCLAIMER: Due to the age of this book, some methods, beliefs, or practices may have been deemed unsafe, undesirable, or unacceptable in the interim years. In utilizing the information herein, you do so at your own risk. We republish antiquarian books without judgment, solely for their historical and cultural importance, and for educational purposes. If purchasing a book more than 50 years old, especially for a minor, please use due diligence and vet the text before gifting. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Digges, Rev. J. G. The practical bee guide : history, anatomy, appliances, management. Eighth edition. 40th thousand. Dublin: The Talbot Press, Limited, December 1936. Paperback, Good. Tan card covers, grubby with age, creasing and shelfwear to corners, some damage to top and base of spine. Binding sound. Light foxing to endpapers. Frontispiece b/w photograph. viii, 303pp. + commercial advertisements. Contents clean and bright. The Reverend Joseph Garvan Digges, M.A. (b 1858 d 1933) was an ecclesiastic, beekeeper, organist and composer, broadly considered the father of Irish beekeeping and famously celebrated for his contribution to that subject. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

Condition: Good. The Practical Bee Guide. DIGGES, JG Rev. A Manual of Modern Beekeeping. Simpkin, Marshall Ltd, London, 1941, paperback, GD+ 310 , illus in the text with 173 figures from b/w photographs, diagrams and sketches, fb/w rontis photograph of author No inscriptions or annotations, sound square binding, no loose pages, moderate tanning on edges, wraps show moderate staining from use, spine head chied, spine tail closed tear. NATURAL HISTORY, BEES, BEE KEEPING, HISTORY, HIVES, HONEY PRODUCTION. 43591 NAT HIST/BEES £1500.

pp.ix, 229, with b/w. photos., and illus., plus 19 pages of adverts. 8vo. Bookplate to ffep. Spine neatly reinforced. A good to vg. softback.

Cloth. Condition: Good+. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, amply illustrated with b/w portrait frontispiece and plates and in-text illustrations. Original green-black grained buckram, spine lettered in gilt and blind-ruled. Edges speckled red. Bumped, faintly soiled. Creased at top corners, gathering G loose, a few stains. Else, clean. Good+ A robust copy of this early C20th manual for bee-keeping, written "to promote a wider knowledge of the wonders of Bee life, to encourage humane and intelligent treatment of the Honey Bee, and to assist the development of Bee-Keeping in Ireland as a National Industry," and featuring portrait photographs of numerous expert Irish beekeepers, including Mrs Annie Cronin, Thomas McGrath, Sir Horace Plunkett, and Anthony Traill, amongst others.