Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co., 1867. Leather bound. Poetry of the Fields offers a feast of poems from Shakespeare and Shelley, Wordsworth and Burns, and many other illustrious pens, all writing in praise of nature's pastures and their denizens: skylarks and blossoms, grasshoppers and daffodils, blackbirds and primroses, and..... More
Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co., 1868. Hardcover. Poetry of the Woods gathers the voices of poets Shelley and Longfellow, Coleridge, Keats, and Milton, Wordsworth and Pope, Edith May (Anne Drinker), and many more, all writing in service to the trees. The titles of the poems alone invite wonder: "Vernal..... More
Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co., 1864. Hardcover. Poetry of the Year unites the verse of Shakespeare, Tennyson, Coleridge, and other beloved poets, with verse arranged by Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. The titles of the poems alone evoke the beauty of the seasons: Milton's "On May Morning," Keats' "Summer..... More
![Hans Andersen's Stories for the Young [Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen]. Susannah Mary...](/pictures/thumb/10305_1.JPG?v=1644786844)
London: Frederick Warne and Co., circa 1900. Hardcover. Like the north wind gracing its covers, this turn-of-the-century collection of fairy tales is sure to sweep you off your feet and into worlds full of magic and adventure. This beautifully and bountifully illustrated edition features translations by Susannah Mary Paull and..... More
London: Edward Stanford, 1890. Hardcover. In this scarce sequel to her immensely popular introduction to science, Arabella Buckley ushers her readers into a magician's moonlit turret chamber, wherein we find the magnifying glass, the telescope, the spectroscope, the photographic camera, and the microscope..."All of these instruments told of the magician's..... More
![Eyes and No Eyes [Relfe Brothers Binding]. Arabella Buckley, Angelo Fairfax Muckley, Mrs. Fisher,...](/pictures/thumb/10380_1.JPG?v=1645567025)
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, circa 1905. Leather_bound. This gentle, walk-through introduction to natural history is the work of Arabella Burton Buckley (1840-1929), who at the age of twenty-four started her eleven-year tenure as secretary to influential geologist Charles Lyell and who after his death became a science educator in..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1903. Hardcover. Allow the impish fairy flying across its front cover to guide you inside this fairy-sized 1903 collection of legends and fairy tales from across France. Princesses and mermaids and giants, enchanted rings and castles hung in air, and, of course, fairies..... More
London: Darton and Co., circa 1840. A New Edition, with Additions and Improvements. Hardcover. The dramatic cover of this circa 1840 edition of Peter Parley's Wonders, with its erupting volcano and starry sky, is an apt invitation to the many marvels chronicled within. An early publication in the popularization of..... More
London: Sunday School Union, [1882]. First Edition. Hardcover. This charming and uncommonly well-preserved 1882 publication of the Sunday School Union sought to teach children both natural history and moral education, by way of illuminating and illustrating the many positive characteristics displayed by the ant, "an insect which has attracted the..... More
![The Human Side of Plants, Birds, Trees, and Animals [4 Volume Set]. Royal Dixon, Franklyn Everett...](/pictures/thumb/8045_1.JPG?v=1622082158)
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1914-1918. First Edition. Hardcover. "My sole purpose is to make the reader self-active, observative, free from hide-bound prejudice, and reborn as a participant in the wonderful experiences of life which fill the universe..." So writes the queer animal rights activist and naturalist Royal Dixon..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1913. Hardcover. "If there is a phrase in our tongue which connotes the atmosphere of romance it is that of 'the Middle Ages.' Do but mention the words, and it is as another opening of Pandora's box. Out there streams a retinue of goodly..... More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. This charmingly conceived and prettily bound 1880 children's book follows a young girl, the titular Jenny, as she learns about the insect world through a series of dialogues with "A Great Ugly Spider," "A Nice Little Housekeeper"–an ant, "The Little Confectioner"–a..... More
London: John Ouseley, Ltd., [1910]. First Edition. Hardcover. "I want to tell you that in this beautiful and marvellous world there are things far more wonderful—and yet real—than anything you have ever read about in fairy books..." So begins your invitation into the fairy-land of fern-culture through the pages of..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1885. Third and Cheaper Edition. Hardcover. This ode to autumnal foliage forms the "first attempt ever made in England to reproduce in facsimile...not merely the exquisite tinting but the forms and venation of the most prominent and conspicuous of the leaves whose dying splendour..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, LD. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. "We shall, perhaps, find this antique world quite as strange as the fairy-land of Grimm or Lewis Carroll. True, it was not inhabited by 'slithy toves' or 'jabber-wocks,' but by real beasts....And yet, as real as it all is, this antique..... More
London: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, [1899]. Hardcover. "Once upon a time there was a little Princess who was very fond of reading and learning. But, curiously enough, she was not fond of other good things, such as...running about in the open air..." So begins this fairy tale of science..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. "Here we meet spiders that indulge in airship rides; ants that keep cattle; caterpillars that weave marvelous garments; silkworms that have made fortunes for their owners; and many another worker whose life story reads like the romance which it really..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. The "rising and setting of the Sun, the marvelous phases of the Moon, and the march of the glittering star hosts across the sky" are only the beginning of what this 1922 star-spangled tome seeks to show you. The Secrets..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1914. Hardcover. Between the festive bright red covers of this 1914 collection, you'll find the children's fantasy Christmas-Tree Land and the collection of fairy tales and short stories A Christmas Posy, both by “the Jane Austen of the Nursery,” author of no less than a hundred..... More
![Princess Girlikin or the Fairy Thimble and Other Fairy Tales [On a Pincushion]. Ida Preston...](/pictures/thumb/10288_1.JPG?v=1644015752)
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1892. Hardcover. This enchanting fairy tale collection includes Ida Preston Nichols' Princess Girlikin, the story of a princess who saves (and clothes) a prince led astray in Fairyland, as well as the entirety of On a Pincushion, a fairy tale collection by the..... More
Portland: Sawyer's Inc., 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Experience the fairyland of mushrooms as you never have before in this 1949 tome on the subject and its second volume--a velvet-lined faux book holding an accompanying stereoscope viewer and 231 fantastic images. Dr. Alexander Hanchett Smith (1904-1986) was a renowned authority on..... More
London: Hardwicke & Bogue, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. "Every day we are proving that 'man liveth not by bread alone;' and that sunny blue skies, laughing streams, and flower-bedecked fields are full of lofty and even spiritual teachings..." With covers as green and gold and blossom-strewn as the "flower-bedecked fields"..... More
![The Folk-Lore of Plants [ex libris M. R. Audubon]. T. F. Thiselton-Dyer](/pictures/thumb/8019_1.JPG?v=1621636511)
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889. Authorized Edition, First American Edition. Hardcover. Between these covers are pages and pages dedicated to the place plants hold in legends and fairy lore, sacred traditions and superstitions, folk-medicine and mysticism, and more. This particular copy holds special interest as it bears the..... More
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1906. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. "It is not surprising that the beauty of woman--in praise of which both literature and art have from the earliest period lavished some of their grandest works--should have given rise in most countries to a host of..... More
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1889. Hardcover. This bright and bloom-bedecked 1889 edition of Cactus Culture for Amateurs is the work of British botanist and horticulturist William Watson (1858–1925), a gardener at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1879 who ascended to the title of Curator shortly after this book was..... More
