Dec 04, 2014 - Sale 2369

Sale 2369 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BOTANICAL.) M. Brunswick & Co. Travelling salesman's catalog of fruit, flowers, and trees. Over 125 color lithographed and stenciled plates, finished by hand. 220x145 mm, travelling salesman's folding cloth and leather case, front cover detached; apparently missing a very few plates. Rochester, NY: Stecher Lith. Co., 1887

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Rochester was a center of the nursery industry in the second half of the 19th century, and first years of the 20th. A successful color-printing industry developed in the city to satisfy demand for nursery catalogs, seed packets, and salesman's materials.