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: 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

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

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: 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: 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

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

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: 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