THE FRUITS OF AMERICA, CONTAINING RICHLY COLORED FIGURES, AND FULL DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE CHOICEST VARIETIES CULTIVATED IN THE UNITED STATES

by Charles M. Hovey

$4,500 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Boston, MA: C.C. Little and Jas. Brown and Hovey & Co. and Hovey and Co., 1847 -1856. First edition, early issue with the title page undated and a copyright date of 1851 on the verso; we have not seen the subscribers list, noting among them the eighteen who ordered large-paper copies, mentioned in bibliographic collations or in copies for sale. 8vo. 2 volumes: xii pp. ix -x, subscribers list , 100; iv, 96 pp. Frontispiece portrait to each volume

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