1890 Antique Pear botanical print - Pierers music teacher gift - Imperial sizes: 11"x14" (27

- Imperial sizes: 11"x14" (27

The actual print is glued onto the book page along its left edge

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which illustrated the "Botanique" article of a 1938 French Quillet dictionary

1890 Antique Pear botanical print - Pierers music teacher gift - Imperial sizes: 11"x14" (27RARE FIND! Here is an interesting little antique pear botanical print, extracted from a 1890 German Pierers dictionary. This vintage fruit illustration was the dictionary entry for "Birne", which means pears in German. This vintage engraving is in German and shows lovely illustrations of heirloom varieties of pears with poetic names: Graue Dechanstbirne (Doyenne d'Automne in French), Rote Bergamotte (red bergamot), Der KuhFuss (Cow's foot),