An Oak Spring Pomona: A Selection of the Rare Books on Fruit in the Oak Spring Garden Library Tapa dura - 1990

Upperville, Virginia: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1990. Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp xxxvi, 276, a new copy in dustwrapper, still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. {A beautifully produced work charting the history of fruit culture seen through its illustrated books over three hundred years.}. First Edition. Cloth. New/New.

Upperville, VA.: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1990. xxxvi, 276, frontis, 168 col + b/w illus. . HB. Oblong 4to (295x254mm), orig. cloth, patterned endpapers. Withdrawn from an institutional library, a few ink stamps, shelf label to spine. Good in d/w (in removable protective sleeve, spine slightly faded).. . [9780300049367]

Yale University Press, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine. A NEAR FINE BOOK IN A VERY GOOD DUST JACKET, PAGES LIKE NEW CLEAN AND UNMARKED. 4.0

Upperville, VA: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1990. Hardcover. VG/G+ (light wear to block, corners bumped, library label inside front cover. Pages are otherwise very crisp and clean. Overall shelf wear to dust jacket with small tears and rubbing). Orange cloth boards with gold gilt lettering and illustration on front cover, illustrated flyleaves, color-illustrated dust jacket with black lettering, xxxii, 276 pp. with 100 color and duotone plates. "An Oak Spring Pomona is the second of a series of catalogues describing selections of the rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. The Pomona describes a hundred books and manuscripts about fruit, with illustrations taken from some of the most beaitufil books on the subject, as well as original drawings or paintings ... Each description makes clear the background of the book concerned and its relationship to others, while a generous number of illustrations in color and black and white help to… Leer más

Oak Spring Garden Library, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Jacket spine is sunned, but legibility is not impacted. Jacket has Mylar covering. Back of jacket is stained, but readability is not affected. Jacket edges are worn. Spine is shaken but secure. Spine is bumped. Cover edges are slightly worn. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Pages clean, crisp, unmarked. Cover and Jacket have light wear, with mild sunning along spine of Jacket. (Check our listings for other Oak Spring titles). Shipped promptly with Tracking. MISC9

Oak Spring Garden Library, Upperville, Virginia, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Orange cloth decorated with a gilt piece of fruit on front cover, illustrated end papers, xxxii + [4} + 276 pp., numerous illustrations in color and in b & w. This is a very nice copy, clean and tight. It has a musty odor that is discernible but not overwhelming; front board is bowed, previous owner's name on front flyleaf; otherwise, this is a clean, tight copy. In a pictorial dust jacket that has a 2" pen mark on front cover, and some very minor bumping at one corner. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 14 oz. Category: Gardening, Flowers, Botany, Fruits, Vegetables; Books; ISBN: 0300049366. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 003516. .

Upperville: Oak Spring Garden, 1990. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white.

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… Leer más

Upperville: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1990 4to (29.5 cm), xxxvi, 277 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "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… Leer más