Description:
The Specimen Book of Fruits, Flowers, and Ornamental Trees. Carefully Drawn and Colored from Nature for the Use of Nurserymen. Rochester: M. Brunswick & Co., [c. 1870]. Oblong octavo, full-color title and approximately ninety-one color plates of fruits, trees, and flowers, in publisher's flexible morocco boards, printed by use by McCabe Brothers, of North Bangor, Maine, with the same tooled in gilt on the front board, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Estimate $300-500
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North Bangor, RochesterJohn Dorfman
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