POMOLOGY. [Album of watercolored pears. Belgium, circa 1850] - Lot 37

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POMOLOGY. [Album of watercolored pears. Belgium, circa 1850] - Lot 37
POMOLOGY. [Album of watercolored pears. Belgium, circa 1850]. In-4 oblong (30 x 22 cm), framed red morocco, rich gilt and cold-stamped framing, center boards in blue embroidered cloth striped in yellow with a central heraldic lion, ornate spine, gilt edges, gusseted slipcase in upper board (Period binding). PRECIOUS ALBUM CONTAINING 48 ORIGINAL AQUARELLES REPRESENTING AS MANY VARIETIES OF PEAR Grown in Belgium (approx. 18.5 x 13.5 cm), executed with great care and captioned by hand: Délice d'Hardenpont, Doyenné du Comice, Beurré Saint-François, Colmar d'Arenberg, Deux Sœurs, etc., preceded by a title with a rich handwritten frame. The album was enriched in the first half of the 20th century with laminated illustrations and a few original pencil drawings: a study of a hazelnut tree, Walt Disney's Seven Dwarfs portraits, a pig fanfare, etc. From the library of C. Heughebaert, judge in Tournai, with his dry stamp. Provenance: owned by a Luxembourg amateur who amassed a multitude of objets d'art over five decades. Worn binding, upper hinge split, one headband damaged. Small marginal tears, a few leaves torn off.
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