[Rarebooks] FS: 1833 American- "Flores Poetici. The Florist’s Manual"

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: "Flores Poetici. The Florist’s Manual: Designed as an Introduction
to Vegetable Physiology and Systematic Botany, for Cultivators of Flowers"

By H[erman] Bourne.
Published in Boston by Munroe and Francis: 1833.

DISCUSSION: A nice example of an early and uncommon American florist’s
manual. The book is most notable for its 73 delicately hand-colored wood
engravings of flowers. Bourne was a former editor of the ‘Literary
Magazine’ who apparently found hot-house primulas preferable to New York
prima donnas.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 6”x9.5”, 288 pages, with 73 hand-colored
engravings in the text. Original green floral-patterned cloth.

CONDITION NOTES: Covers a bit rubbed and soiled, with some wear at the
spine head and base, tips bumped. Contents with some light scattered
browning and a little scattered soil. Bookplate. Evidently
ex-institutional, with a very faint blindstamp on the title page and
several light inked numbers on the reverse.

PRICE: $4,000

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