The Victorian fascination with natural history combined with affordable book publishing led to some comely titles in elegant binding. The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto ...

In the 19th century, tourists who traveled through the Holy Land may have picked up scrapbooks of pressed flowers as souvenirs. Specimens from ‘Flowers of the Holy Land’ (courtesy Thomas Fisher Rare ...

When the botanist Hewett Cottrell Watson finished reading a presentation copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859), he could not contain his enthusiasm. “You are the greatest ...