Natural Histories


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Highlights 40 masterworks of illustrated scientific art from the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History.




Victorian Poetry


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"Victorian Poetry" by John Drinkwater This book of Victorian Poetry is a brief study that deals chiefly with the work of Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Rossetti, Swinburne and Morris. Poets of almost equal importance such as Coventry Patmore, Mrs. Browning and Christina Rossetti, are also featured in this historical work first published in 1923. It shares excerpts of poems and provides readers with a helpful analysis of the most important work from the period.










The Athenaeum


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Butterfly People


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With 32 pages of full-color inserts and black-and-white illustrations throughout. From one of our most highly regarded historians, here is an original and engrossing chronicle of nineteenth-century America's infatuation with butterflies—“flying flowers”—and the story of the naturalists who unveiled the mysteries of their existence. A product of William Leach's lifelong love of butterflies, this engaging and elegantly illustrated history shows how Americans from all walks of life passionately pursued butterflies, and how through their discoveries and observations they transformed the character of natural history. In a book as full of life as the subjects themselves and foregrounding a collecting culture now on the brink of vanishing, Leach reveals how the beauty of butterflies led Americans into a deeper understanding of the natural world.




The Open Court


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The Open Court


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