Histoire Naturelle des Orangers

by Joseph Antoine Risso, Pierre Antoine Poiteau

$27,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

19th-century full orange morocco, richly gilt by Riviere, gilt and red edges, marbled endpapers. First edition of this beautiful work depicting sweet and bitter oranges, lemons, limes, citrons, and grapefruit. This work contains exquisite drawings of every known variety of orange, lemon and grape fruit, and their congeners, fruits that hang from the leaves, alternately like suns or moons, with every kind of rind, and shaped like gourds or pitchers ... or again,

• Binding: Leather

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