[FLEURS] - OCHSENBEIN (Gonthier), KUVEN (Robert) -Livre Rare Book
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The Language of Flowers Poetically Expressed; Being a Complete Flora's Album
1847Best.-Nr. 48961New York: Leavitt & Allen 1847. Very Good -. New York: Leavitt & Allen 1847 or later. 16mo 13 cm; 128pp; three handcolored plates including frontis. Boards in brown pebbled cloth with gilt decoration and stamping; page edges gilt. Boards rubbed bumped and worn at corners and spine ends with mild soiling to covers and oxidation to gilt. Binding cocked but intact. Interior lightly foxed with a few brief pencil marks otherwise clean. A just about Very Good example. To circumvent etiquette during the Victorian period and earlier couples and others could communicate through bouquets using representative flowers. For example if you wanted to express grief tears and despondency a bouquet of hyacinths heleniums and geraniums would be the ticket. Beware you dazzling dangerous and cold hearted friend: Oleander snap dragons ivy and lettuce. Leavitt & Allen unknown
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA · Vereinigte Staaten175,00 $≈ 156,35 €
