PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ANITA PEEK GILGER, M.D.
COMMELIN, Jan (1629-1692). The Belgick or Netherlandish Hesperides. That is the Management, Ordering, and Use of the Limon and Orange Trees, Fitted to the Nature and Climate of the Netherlands. London: J. Holford, 1683.

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COMMELIN, Jan (1629-1692). The Belgick or Netherlandish Hesperides. That is the Management, Ordering, and Use of the Limon and Orange Trees, Fitted to the Nature and Climate of the Netherlands. London: J. Holford, 1683.

8o (182 x 113 mm). Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: Washington Sewallis Earl Ferrers (armorial bookplate); purchased from Quaritch, 1973.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, of the 1676 Dutch edition Nederlantze Hesperides, dedicated by the translator to Thomas Belasyse, Lord Viscount Fauconberg. Henrey 35; Wing C-5544.

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