The Conservatory Collection
Step into a world of bound treasures celebrating the artistry, science, and symbolism of nature.
$1,875.00
A highly desirable first edition of Les Fleurs Animées by J. J. Grandville, published in Paris by the noted French publisher Gabriel de Gonet in 1847. Considered Grandville’s masterpiece and...
$148.00
Barry’s Fruit Garden by P. Barry is a classic work on nineteenth-century fruit cultivation, orchard management, pruning, propagation, and the care of fruit-bearing trees and plants. This 1901 revised edition...
$145.00
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A Victorian guide to ornamental gardening, Flowers for the Parlor and Garden offers practical instruction and inspiration for cultivating beauty both indoors and out. Covering topics such as conservatories, greenhouse...
$165.00
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Petland Revisited by Rev. J.G. Wood is a late-Victorian natural history and animal anecdote volume beautifully illustrated throughout with scenes of cats, dogs, unconventional pets, and animal companions. This 1899...
$185.00
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A beautifully preserved 1914 edition of The Gamekeeper at Home by Richard Jefferies which is richly illustrated by Charles Whymper. In a full dark green leather prize binding from Weymouth...
$185.00
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A beautifully bound 1877 edition of Our Summer Migrants by noted English ornithologist J. E. Harting, a Victorian work devoted to migratory birds of the British Isles. This Second Edition...
$385.00
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A beautifully produced Victorian botanical volume from The Botanic Garden series by B. Maund, featuring richly hand-colored botanical illustrations alongside detailed horticultural descriptions and engraved fruit studies. This Volume XII...
British Insect Life by Edward Step | 1929 Revised Edition | Fine Leather Prize Binding
$225.00
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A beautifully preserved 1929 revised first edition of British Insect Life by Edward Step, elegantly rebound in full dark green leather by Rivière & Son Binderies and richly decorated in...
$185.00
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A beautifully preserved late 19th to early 20th century Jerusalem pressed flower album bound in richly grained olive wood boards with a leather spine and decorative inlaid panel to the...
$225.00
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A beautiful and increasingly sought-after late Victorian horticultural work devoted entirely to the cultivation and study of orchids during the height of England’s 19th-century orchid mania. Published in London in...
The Rose (1882) || By H. B. Ellwanger | Rose Gardening Book
$88.00
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A detailed and highly collectible edition of The Rose by H. B. Ellwanger who was associated with the historically important Mount Hope Nurseries in Rochester, NY. This was one of the...
$175.00
Peter Henderson’s Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture is a substantial early twentieth-century gardening reference filled with hundreds of detailed black-and-white botanical engravings. Originally developed from Henderson’s highly influential nineteenth-century...
1883 A Synopsis of the British Mosses | Chas. P. Hobkirk | Victorian Bryology & Botanical Reference
$145.00
A Synopsis of the British Mosses by Chas. P. Hobkirk is a specialized Victorian botanical work devoted to the study and classification of mosses found throughout Great Britain and Ireland....
$145.00
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An increasingly scarce Victorian gardening work by Catherine M. Buckton, published in London in 1879. Written as a series of sixteen educational lectures, Town and Window Gardening was designed to...
$130.00
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A charming 1904 first edition of Flower Fables and Fancies by N. Hudson Moore, published by Frederick A. Stokes Company. This beautifully produced volume explores the lore, symbolism, and character...
$250.00
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A beautiful Victorian horticultural work devoted entirely to the cultivation, appreciation, and display of roses. Published in 1878, The Amateur’s Rose Book by renowned gardening writer Shirley Hibberd served as a...
1884 Modern Window Gardening by Samuel Wood | Victorian Gardening & Horticulture
$145.00
A charming Victorian gardening guide published in London in 1884, Modern Window Gardening by Samuel Wood offers practical advice for flower, fruit, vegetable, and herb cultivation in both town and...
$175.00
A fascinating Victorian scientific periodical, Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip Volume XV (1879), richly illustrated throughout with hundreds of wood engravings covering botany, entomology, ornithology, geology, paleontology, microscopy, marine life, meteorology, and natural...
$125.00
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Edward Sprague Rand Jr.’s Flowers for the Parlor and Garden remains one of the most popular Victorian guides to floriculture and ornamental gardening. Originally published in 1863, this 1882 printing...
1900 The Out-Door World | W. Furneaux | Fine Leather Prize Binding | Illustrated Natural History
$245.00
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A handsome and increasingly scarce fine leather prize binding of The Out-Door World by W. Furneaux, published by Longmans, Green and Co., London, in 1900. Bound in rich maroon full...