Le Jardin Fruitier Du Museum Ou Iconographie De Toutes Les Especes Et Varietes Darbres Fruitiers

by Joseph Decaisne

$12,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Finely bound in early 20th-century, French, quarter light brown morocco and marble paper boards, marble endpapers by F. Saulnier First and only edition of this fine pomology, one of the greatest of all fruit books. Joseph Decaisne was a distinguished Belgian-born French botanist renowned for his contributions to horticulture, agronomy, and botanical taxonomy. Trained at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, Decaisne became head of the museum's Jardin des

• Binding: Leather

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