[Rarebooks] FS: 1833 American Florist's manual w/Hand Colored Illustrations

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

“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 in 1833.

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.

Hardcover. 6"x9.5", 288 pages, with 73 hand-colored engravings in the 
text. Original green floral-patterned cloth. 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.  Special 
Price Today: $1,000 net, ppd.

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