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Paris: Imprimerie de Mme. Hérrisant le Doux, 1820. 4to. (13 5/8 x 10 inches). Half-title, 2pp. dedication to the Duchesse de Berry, 109 fine stipple-engraved plates printed in colors and finished by hand after Poiteau by V. Bonnefoi, Chailly, Dien, Gabriel, Legrand, T. Susémihl and Texier. Period quarter calf, spine with gilt decoration, marbled paper boards First edition of this beautiful work depicting sweet and bitter oranges, lemons, limes, citrons, and grapefruit. This work "contains exquisite drawings of every known variety of orange, lemon and grape fruit, and their congeners, fruits that hang from the leaves, alternately like suns or moons, with every kind of rind, and shaped like gourds or pitchers ... or again, authentic globes of fire, whether pale, as of moonlight, or red-gold like the sun but half-hidden, as in poetry, in its own green shade. A beautiful and inspiring work, in its way not less so than Redouté's Les Liliacées ... or Les Roses" (Great Flower Books). The text covers… Read More

Paris: Imprimerie de Mme. Hérrisant le Doux, 1820. 4to. (13 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches). Half-title, 2pp. dedication to the Duchesse de Berry, 109 fine stipple-engraved plates printed in colors and finished by hand after Poiteau by V. Bonnefoi, Chailly, Dien, Gabriel, Legrand, T. Susémihl and Texier. 19th-century full orange morocco, richly gilt by Riviere, gilt and red edges, marbled endpapers. First edition of this beautiful work depicting sweet and bitter oranges, lemons, limes, citrons, and grapefruit. This work "contains exquisite drawings of every known variety of orange, lemon and grape fruit, and their congeners, fruits that hang from the leaves, alternately like suns or moons, with every kind of rind, and shaped like gourds or pitchers ... or again, authentic globes of fire, whether pale, as of moonlight, or red-gold like the sun but half-hidden, as in poetry, in its own green shade. A beautiful and inspiring work, in its way not less so than Redouté's Les Liliacées ... or Les Roses" (Great… Read More