Precious Stones: Their History and Mystery1880
Every famous gem with its legend attached.
The Books, Shelf by Shelf
22 books in this collection, shelved the way a good bookshop would do it. The book's cover is the door; you are invited to walk in anywhere.
The Gem Vault (8 books)·The Jeweler's Bench (1 books)·Birds (2 books)·The Insect World (3 books)·The Lost Worlds (2 books)·The Naturalist's Library (2 books)·Learning Nature (1 books)·Flowers & Trees (3 books)
The Gem Vault
Famous stones, their curses and their legends.
The Curious Lore of Precious Stones1913
Tiffany's expert on every superstition a stone ever carried.
The Great Diamonds of the World1882
The Koh-i-Noor and its rivals, theft by theft.
The Magic of Jewels and Charms1915
Meteorites, bezoars and amulets from every age.
The Crown Jewels of England1919
England's crown jewels, stone by stone.
Finger-Ring Lore1877
Every ring with a story, from signets to charms.
Ancient Jewelry
The jewelry of the ancients, piece by piece.
Natal Stones1912
Your birth month's stone, and what it promises.
The Jeweler's Bench
Gems as the trade knows them.
A Book of Precious Stones1909
A working jeweler's tour of gems — cut, priced and myth-checked.
Birds
Field guides and camera hunts.
Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America1895
Chapman's classic that taught America its birds.
Camera Studies with Wild Birds
Wild birds stalked with a camera instead of a gun.
The Insect World
Butterflies, bees and everything that hums.
How to Know the Butterflies1904
The Comstocks' guide to the butterflies, plates and all.
The Honey Makers1899
The honey bee's whole world, from hive to clover.
The Insect Folk1903
The insect folk introduce themselves to children.
The Lost Worlds
Dinosaurs and the deep past.
Animals of the Past1901
The dinosaurs as 1901 knew, guessed and got them wrong.
Extinct Monsters and Creatures of Other Days1900
The vanished giants, restored by Victorian imagination.
The Naturalist's Library
The great multi-volume surveys of the living world.
The Nature Library1904
Doubleday's fifteen-volume guide to the living world.
A Book Of Natural History
The animal kingdom in one readable volume.
Learning Nature
Nature study for young readers.
ABC of Animals
The animal alphabet, for the youngest naturalists.
Flowers & Trees
The green world, bloom by bloom.
How to Know the Wild Flowers1893
The field classic that taught botany by color.
A Year in the Wonderland of Trees1924
Twelve months in the woods, squirrel banking included.
Flowers and their Friends
Flowers and the insects that keep them company.