Isbn: 9780300049367 - an Oak Spring Pomona – a Selection of the Rare Books on Fruit in the Oak Spring Garden Library (oak Spring Garden Foundation Series) (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Oversized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xxxvi, 278pp, illustrated throughout in colour. Orange/red cloth-covered boards; gilt design on front, gilt titles on black printed spine label, patterned endpapers. 4to. Rubbed spine ends, volume cupped. Top text block edge foxing, heavy text block has dropped. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine area sun-faded, has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage. …

Cloth, skiver spine-label, gilt cover-device, patterned endpapers, large 4to, xxxii, [3], 276, [1] pp, colour ills. 100 entries. From a contemporary review by Amy Meyers in the Huntington Library Quarterly: "Like many of the publications Raphael describes, her own volumes are exquisitely designed and printed. The reproductions of prints from illustrated books are superb, replicating the colors of the originals as closely as possible, and a number of bindings are reproduced so beautifully that the books almost appear to be resting on the page. Such palpable images of omate bindings and lavish illustrations reinforce for Raphael's readers the great importance given to horticultural treatises by the European aristocrats and Americans of wealth and standing who used them in the creation of their gardens." Textblock edges faintly spotted, otherwise Very Good.…

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. 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 Withdrawn from an institutional library, a few ink stamps, shelf label to spine.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].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. 1st. Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white.

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Bound in cloth, with dust jacket. Many ills, in color and b/w. 276 p. . -(Some small tears and sunning to the dust jacket, but otherwise the book is in very good condition.). ISBN 9780300049367.

Condition: Good. 4to. 276 pp. Red cloth-covered decorative boards with gilt pear design on front board, gilt and black text on spine and illustrated tree motif on endpapers. Very good with marginal tearing along upper edge of front dustjacket and sticker from previous owner on back end paper. Mostly color plates. Includes works by Johann Kraft, J.C. Volkamer, Marco Bussato, Jean du Choul et al. From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 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 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.".…