Pomona Londinensis: Containing Coloured Engravings of the Most Esteemed Fruits Cultivated in the British Gardens, with a Descriptive Account of Each Variety

by William Hooker

$12,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Half red morocco over red and black marbled cloth boards, five raised bands forming six compartments ruled gilt, with gilt-lettering in second compartment and gilt botanical center tool in rest, red and blue French curl marbled endpapers, top edge gilt Important pomological work containing among the best of all fruit prints, by an artist whose work is equal or even superior to paintings of fruit by the great Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Dunthorne Stearn

• Binding: Leather

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