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Archive Print Item

Guide des fruits tropicaux : la Réunion, Maurice, Mayotte

Hoareau, Jean-Max; Burglin, Mireille

c1995

Includes bibliographical references (p. 110) and index.

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Fruit for the home and garden

Johns, Leslie; Stevenson, Violet W; Yamaguchi, Marianne; Johns, Leslie

1985

Previously published as: The complete book of fruit. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1979. Includes index.

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A guide to market fruits of Southeast Asia

Phillipps, Karen; Dahlen, Martha

c1985

Includes index.

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Floral border (fol. 117v)
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Floral border (fol. 117v)

[ca. 1440-1460]

Rinceau border with acanthus leaves, thistles, barbed quatrefoils, red berries, bluebells, a trumpet flower, and black hairline tendrils with gold ivy leaves and pine cones. Bar-frame border in rose/b...

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Decorated initials (fol. 47v)
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Decorated initials (fol. 47v)

[ca 1480-1520]

7- and 3-line initials 'I' in red and blue, decorated with pen ornamentation of flowers and pomegranates in various colours.

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Floral border (fol. 149r)
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Floral border (fol. 149r)

[ca. 1470-1480]

Bar-frame border in gold and in rose/blue acanthus vine that extends into the border in curved leaves and hairline tendrils that carry poppyheads, heart motifs, gold pine cones and gold balls with gre...

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The companion for the orchard. An historical and botanical account of fruits known in Great Britain: by Henry Phillips... [etc.]

Phillips, Henry (fl.1798-1831)

1831

Half-title reads: An historical and botanical account of fruits known in Great Britain.

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Floral border (fol. 151v)
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Floral border (fol. 151v)

[ca. 1440-1460]

Rinceau border with cranberries, blueberries, acanthus leaves and speedwells in the upper and lower margin. A column border in the middle of the page is composed of a bar-frame of gold and blue/pink v...

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