Oct 10, 2002 - Sale 1946

Sale 1946 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 230
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(AGRICULTURE.) Prince, William. A Treatise on the Vine. Lithographed frontispiece. 8vo, publisher's boards, backstrip worn with loss; large tear to title-page with loss to text, foxed; uncut and unopened. New York, 1830

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"William Robert Prince (1795-1869) was the fourth proprieter of the famous Prince Nursery and Linnaean Botanic Garden at Flushing, Long Island. During his lifetime the Prince Nursery was the most important nursery in the United States . . . A major portion of the text is the detailed description and classification of hundreds of European and American grape varieties"--Gabler G33030; Sabin 65623. <