London: Ward, Lock, & Bowden, Limited, circa 1880. Hardcover. "It was only natural, that from an early period, and throughout all lands, flowers should have been chosen as emblems of thoughts and sentiments, and invested with a language of their own...Round many a flower beautiful thoughts cluster..." So is introduced..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 9" X 6 1/8". 288pp. Autograph Edition, limited to 750 copies, of which this is 534. Signature under frontispiece is a facsimile, not an authentic signature. Blue cloth over boards, with title label to spine. Heavy rubbing and soiling to cloth, with..... More

New York: American Book Company, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. This approachable and charmingly type-set 1896 guide to botany for children is the work of Frances Theodora Parsons (1861–1952), author of How to Know the Wild Flowers, the first field guide to North American wildflowers, with cheerful and admiring illustrations throughout..... More

Washington DC: U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1943. Staplebound. 10 1/2" X 8". iv, 92pp. Mild wear to staplebound pages, with light soiling, creasing, and edgewear, and faint pink stain to bottom corner. Binding is sound. Pages are age-toned but clean and unmarked. Small closed tear to leaf containing pages..... More

Hyderabad, India: National Institute of Community Development, 1968. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 119pp. Signed & Inscribed by Prodipto Roy to front pastedown, with his information on a scrap of paper laid in to rear flyleaf, with toning to pages. Moderate wear to blue cloth covered boards, with sunning..... More

Warsaw, Poland: Published for the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the National Science Foundation, Washington, D. C. by the Foreign Scientific Publications Department of the National Center for Scientific, Technical and Economic Information, 1980. Paperback. 9 3/8" X 6 1/2". 374pp. Text is in English. Moderate edgewear to paper..... More

London: John Hogg, [1894]. Hardcover. Ramble back through more than a century, into the lush garden of Scottish journalist and publisher Alexander Hay Japp (1837–1905) in his 1894 book Hours in My Garden and Other Nature-Sketches. These green covers which bear the bucolic image of his garden hold "the delightful..... More

Ann Arbor: Printed by Edward Brothers, Inc., 1947. Paperback. 11" X 8 3/8". 67pp. Pale yellow cloth wraps with upper wrap and spine lettered in black. Moderate wear to binding,w tih soiling to cloth, creasing to corners, and open tear to bottom 2" of spine. Hinges tender. Binding remains sound..... More

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. 7" X 4 3/4". xiii, 300pp, plus one leaf of ads. Ex-Public Library of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, with associated marks, stamps, and labels. Blue cloth over boards, with upper board lettered in black and spine in gilt. Rather heavy wear to binding..... More

New York: Stumpp & Walter Co., 1944. Staplebound. 9" x 6". 32pp. World War II era stapled full color pamphlet with instructions for how to plant your very own "victory garden" with accompanying Stumpp & Walter seed catalog order form laid in. Mild foxing to cover wraps, but overall clean..... More