MAS, Alphonse.
Le verger ou histoire, culture et description avec planches coloriées des variétés de fruits le plus généralement connues.
Paris, G. Masson, [1873]. 8 parts in 8 volumes. Large 8vo (28 x 18.7 cm). With 384 chromo-lithographed plates with 792 figures depicting pears, apples, plums, peaches, cherries and apricots. Contemporary blind-stamped green buckram. Each plate with 4 pages text.
€ 5,000
First edition of one of the rarest pomological works of the 19th century. The work contains an extensive description in 8 parts of the following fruits: part 1-3 on pears, growing in winter, summer and fall; part 4-5 on apples, growing precocious or tardily; part 6 on plums; part 7 on peaches and part 8 on cherries and apricots. Of each sort the fruit, the tree on which it grows, the varieties in which it appears, the skin etc. are extensively described and a list is given of the other works in which that particular fruit is described or mentioned. Each description is illustrated with a beautiful and detailed picture, all painted by Pingeon and Lefèvre and lithographed by Severeyns, Grabowski, Dupuy or Lefèvre.
Beautiful set. Nissen, BBI 1295 (mentions, wrongly, 9 volumes with only 522 figures); not in Stafleu; Rafael, S. An Oak Spring Pomona.
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