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Dutch translation of a dictionary of fruit science

SERRURIER, J.F. Fruitkundig woordenboek, behelzende all hetgeen betrekking heeft tot de kennis en het huishoudelijk gebruik der verschillende soorten van fruiten; tot het aankweeken, veredelen, snoeijen en behandelen van vruchtboomen; tot het aanleggen van broeibakken, trekkassen en oranjehuizen enz. Gevolgd naar het hoogduitsch van J.C. Christ en verrijkt met het wetenwaardigste uit het op last van het Engelsch Gouvernement uitgegeven werk van W. Forsijth.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1805-1806. 2 volumes. Royal 8vo. With 18 (17 folded) plates. Publisher's red speckled boards, spines with printed label (preserved in 2 recent boxes). pp. viii, 483, (1); pp. (6), 517. Full description
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From a series of "the finest engravings of flowers ever made" by the teacher of Redouté

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Chène commun. Quercus robur L. [From: Fleurs dessinées d'après nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Stipple engraving on unwatermarked wove paper (56 x 36.5 cm), printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Quercus robur including two acorns, an empty shell and two buds, signed "P.F. Le Grand sculp." In passepartout. Full description
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From a series of “the finest engravings of flowers ever made” by the teacher of Redouté

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Anemone double. Anemone coronaria. L. [From: Fleurs dessinées d'après nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Stipple engraving on unwatermarked wove paper (56 x 36.5 cm), printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Poppy anemone or Spanish marigold showing six branches with one flower each: three pink-red, two lilac, and one light-green, signed "P.F. Le Grand sculp." In passepartout. Full description
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Fine coloured stipple engraving by one of the masters of Dutch flower painting

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Jacinthe double. Hyacinthus orientalis L. from: [Fleurs Dessinées d'Après Nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Folio. Stipple engraved plate, printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Common Hyacinth, Garden Hyacinth or Dutch Hyacinth with at the left a blue hyacinth without leaves, right a lilac hyacinth with leaves. Signed 'P.F. Le Grand sculp.' Framed. Full description
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Fine coloured stipple engraving by one of the masters of Dutch flower painting

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Digitale pourprée. Digitalis purpurea L. from: [Fleurs Dessinées d'Après Nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Folio. Stipple engraved plate, printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Common Foxglove. With on a sidebranch flowers in various stages, one cut branch and a green shoot, signed 'P.F. Le Grand sculp.' In passepartout. Full description
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Two major works on horticulture

SPEECHLY, William. A treatise on the culture of the vine, exhibiting new and advantageous methods of propagating, cultivating, and training that plant, so as to render it abundantly fruitful. Together with new hints on the formation of vineyards in England.
York, for the author, 1790. 2 works in 1 volume. Large 4to. With 5 engraved plates (3 folding) with views and other illustrations, including figures showing greenhouse buildings and heating devices on the 3 folding plates.
With: FORSYTH, William. A treatise on the culture and management of fruit-trees; in which a new method of pruning and training is fully described. To which is added, a new and improved edition of "Observations on the diseases, defects, and injuries, in all kinds of fruit and forest trees", with an account of a particular method of cure, published by order of government.
London, John Nichols and son for T. N. Longman & O. Rees [and 3 others], 1802. With illustrations of trees, the pruning of trees, and pruning tools on 13 folding engraved plates.Contemporary half light brown blind-tooled morocco. [4], 224; VIII, 371, [1] pp. Full description
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With a map of the island and a folding plan of the city of Funchal

TAYLOR, Ellen M. Madeira: Its scenery and how to see it. With letters of a year's residence, and lists of the trees, flowers, ferns, and seaweeds.
London, Edward Stanford, 1882. 8vo. With a wood-engraved frontispiece, a lithographed folding map of the island of Madeira and a lithographed folding plan of the city of Funchal. Also with a publisher's advertisement at the end with "books useful for visitors to Madeira" from the publisher Trübner and Co., London. Original publisher's black- and gold-blocked green cloth. XVI, 261, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
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Curious work on agronomy

VALLEMONT, Pierre Le Lorrain de. Merckwürdigkeiten der Natur und Kunst, in Zeugung, Fortpflantzung und Vermehrung der Gewächse; Oder Der Ackerbau und die Gärtnerey in ihrer Vollkommenheit. Welchen beygefüget eine kurtze Unterweisung die Obst-Bäume recht zu beschneiden. Beyde aus dem Frantzösischen ins Deutsche übersetzet.
Budißin, Johann Georg Hüneln, 1714. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With title-page printed in red and black, 12 engraved plates and 1 small engraving and 7 woodcuts in text. Contemporary vellum. [36], 456; [6], 457-489, [17] pp. Full description
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12 views of the gardens at Beloeil: "the principal example in Belgium of the classical French style"

VASSE, Jacques-Abraham-Antoine. Souvenir de Beloeil, dédié à son Altesse Sérénissime la Princesse de Ligne, née Princesse Lubomirska.
Brussels, Deltombe, 1853. Oblong 1mo (34 x 50.5 cm). With 12 double-tinted lithographed plates (each ca. 24 x 32 cm), by Van der Heecht, Gerlier and Gratry after drawings by Antoine Vasse (11) and Van der Heecht (1) and printed by J. Lots. Contemporary brown half sheepskin. [8], 17, [1 blank] pp. text Full description
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