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Lot Description

HOFFY, Alfred A. (1796-1872). Hoffy's North American Pomologist, containing numerous finely coloured drawings, accompanied by letter press descriptions, &c, of fruits of North American origin. Edited by William D. Brincklé. Book No. I [all published]. Philadelphia: prepared and published by A. Hoffy, 1860.

4to. Frontispiece portrait, 36 hand-colored lithographed plates heightened in gum arabic. (Occasional toning or offsetting to plates.) Original gilt-lettered cloth (extremities worn, portion of spine panel detached with some losses at ends).

FIRST EDITION. "This book is very rare and there was never any Number 2. The tenacious persistance with which these 'old timers' started publication after publication is proof of their enthusiasm for botanical and agricultural studies" (Bennett, p. 117). Hoffy was a Philadelphia lithographer credited for authoring the first American journal completely devoted to fruit and its cultivation (The Orchardist's Companion, 1841). RARE: According to online records, this work has only appeared twice at auction in the past century. Raphael, Pomona 59.

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