The Fruits of America, containing richly colored figures, and full descriptions of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States
by Charles Mason Hovey
$7,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books
Contemporary brown calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spines laid down and gilt in six compartments with raised bands, morocco lettering-pieces in the second and third compartments, the others with elaborate decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt The most lavish ante-bellum work on the fruit trees of America, 'the first major work executed entirely in chromolithography' Reese . The 96 varieties featured include 93 fruit trees 53 pear, 20 apple,
- Binding: Leather
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