Welcome to the fairy-land of science...
In this, our first rare book catalogue, you'll find books at the crossroads of science and fairy tales in the Victorian era and beyond! Many of these books are warmly and whimsically written, abundantly illustrated, and bound so beautifully they almost look as if, somehow, they've come to us straight from fairyland themselves.
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Download PDF of Catalog No. 1: The Fairy-Land of Science![Item #10380 Eyes and No Eyes [Relfe Brothers Binding]. Arabella Buckley, Angelo Fairfax Muckley,...](https://undergroundbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10380_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
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: 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: 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
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
