An Oak Spring Pomona: A Selection Of The Rare Books On Fruit In The Oak Spring Garden Library
by Raphael, Sandra
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300049366
- ISBN 13
- 9780300049367
- Seller
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Kraków, Poland
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About This Item
Upperville: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1990 4to (29.5 cm), xxxvi, 277 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). "An Oak Spring Pomona" is the second in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. The Pomona describes one hundred books and manuscripts about fruit, with illustrations taken from some of the most beautiful books on the subject as well as from original drawings and paintings. The earliest book described is Bussatos Giardino di Agricoltura of 1592, the latest The Herefordshire Pomona, an encyclopedia of apples and pears from the 1870s. In between there are fruit books large and small: La Quintinie's Instruction pour les Jardins fruitiers, Duhamel's Traite des arbres fruitiers, and many others. The book is divided into sections on fruit-growing in France and Britain, fruit elsewhere in Europe, and fruit in America, as well as citrus fruit, apples and pears, peaches and soft fruit, grapes, melons, and tropical fruit. Each description gives the background of the book and its relationship to others and is accompanied by illustrations of its contents in color and black and white."
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006442
- Title
- An Oak Spring Pomona: A Selection Of The Rare Books On Fruit In The Oak Spring Garden Library
- Author
- Raphael, Sandra
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0300049366
- ISBN 13
- 9780300049367
- Publisher
- Oak Spring Garden Library
- Place of Publication
- Upperville
- Date Published
- 1990
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliography; Natural history; Library catalogues;
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About the Seller
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Biblio member since 2019
Kraków
About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Specializing in mathematical sciences, Church Slavonic and Slavic books, Eastern European history, travels and topography, bibliography, history and art of the book, history of libraries and collections
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