De Nederlandsche boomgaard, beschreven en uitgegeven door het bestuur der Vereeniging tot regeling en verbetering van de vruchtsoorten te Boskoop, met afbeeldingen naar de natuur door S. Berghuis. Van eene voorrede voorzien door H.C. van Hall.

2 vol., 4to: front.-[12]-xxvi-120-[6], 60 pl., front.-[6]-72-32-24-8-[2]-4-[10] pp., 64 pl. (a few pp. brown. throughout, plates generally clean).

Publ. burgundy pictorial cloth, gilt Pomona on front covers, gilt orn. flat spine (sl. discol.), spr. edges. Good copy.

Rather uncommon complete series of this treatise on Dutch orchards, published by the Boskoop Society for improvement of fruit production. Ill. with 2 frontisp. (portrait of dedicatee King Willem III in vol. I and allegorical pl. in vol. II) and 124 nice hand-col. lithogr. plates by the renowned Belgian lithographer Georges Severeyns after the Groningen painter and draughtsman Sybolt Berghuis (1820-1896). Vol. I deals with apples, vol. II with pears (36 pl.), cherries (8), plums (12), apricots (4) and peaches (4); each pl. pictures several varieties of fruit. List of subscribers at the begin. of vol. I. Ref. Nissen BBI 2221.