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An Oak Spring pomona : a selection of the rare books on fruit in the Oak Spring Garden Library / described by Sandra Raphael.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Reference Collection Folio SB355 .R36 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raphael, Sandra.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fruit--Bibliography--Catalogs.
- Fruit.
- Fruit-culture--Bibliography--Catalogs.
- Fruit-culture.
- Fruit--Early works to 1800--Catalogs.
- Fruit-culture--Early works to 1800--Catalogs.
- Oak Spring Garden Library--Catalogs.
- Oak Spring Garden Library.
- Botanical libraries--Virginia--Catalogs.
- Botanical libraries.
- Virginia.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 276 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Upperville, Va. : Oak Spring Garden Library ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, 1990.
- Summary:
- 'An Oak Spring Pomona' is the second of a series of catalogues describing selections of the rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. The 'Pomona' describes a hundred books and manuscripts on fruit, with illustrations taken from some of the most beautiful books on the subject, as well as original drawings or paintings.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0300049366
- OCLC:
- 30439644
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