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JOSEPH DESCAINE (1807-1882)
Le Jardin Fruitier du Muséum ou iconographie de toutes les espèces et variétés d'arbres fruitiers. Paris: Firmin Didot frères, [1858-]1862-1875. 9 volumes, small 2° (314 x 224mm). Half-titles. 508 plates, all but 12 coloured and finished by hand, a few double-page, after Alfred Riocreux, most with tissue-guards. (Occasional light spotting and browning.) Contemporary green morocco-backed boards, spines gilt, uncut, some leaves unopened (spines re-stained).
A FINE POMOLOGICAL WORK ILLUSTRATED BY THE "MOST SENSITIVE AND SKILFUL FRENCH BOTANICAL ARTIST OF THE PERIOD" (Blunt). This is one of the great pomologies and the author, a Belgian attached to the Natural History Museum in Paris, sets out to describe all the species and varieties of fruit growing in the museum's garden. Great Flower Books p.54; Nissen BBI 456; Stafleu & Cowan 1338. (9)
Le Jardin Fruitier du Muséum ou iconographie de toutes les espèces et variétés d'arbres fruitiers. Paris: Firmin Didot frères, [1858-]1862-1875. 9 volumes, small 2° (314 x 224mm). Half-titles. 508 plates, all but 12 coloured and finished by hand, a few double-page, after Alfred Riocreux, most with tissue-guards. (Occasional light spotting and browning.) Contemporary green morocco-backed boards, spines gilt, uncut, some leaves unopened (spines re-stained).
A FINE POMOLOGICAL WORK ILLUSTRATED BY THE "MOST SENSITIVE AND SKILFUL FRENCH BOTANICAL ARTIST OF THE PERIOD" (Blunt). This is one of the great pomologies and the author, a Belgian attached to the Natural History Museum in Paris, sets out to describe all the species and varieties of fruit growing in the museum's garden. Great Flower Books p.54; Nissen BBI 456; Stafleu & Cowan 1338. (9)
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The estimate for this lot should read £6,000 - 8,000.