These can be found at Project Gutenberg and are available for free downloading.  They are quite old writings; but, can be informative and amusing.  The writing style is from another era.

Etext-No.		Author	Title	Language
26457		Huber, François, 1750-1831	New observations on the natural history of bees	English
19319		Munn, William Augustus	A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive With an Abstract of Wildman's Complete Guide for the Management of Bees Throughout the Year	English
27065		Weeks, John M. (John Moseley), 1788-1858	A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees	English
26020		Wolf, C. W., -1866	Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent	English
24583		Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine), 1810-1895	Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual	English
4511		Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949 Sutro, Alfred, 1863-1933 [Translator]	The Life of the Bee	English
25185		Quinby, M. (Moses), 1810-1875	Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained	English