PBA Galleries

Wonderful hand-colored plates of apples, pears and other fruits. Originally published in 1758 and 1763 as Pomologia, Fructologia and Dendrologia. Knoop was head gardener to the Dowager Princess of Orange at Marienburg. "The fruit monographs, apples and pears in the first, plums, peaches, cherries, nuts, and soft fruit in the second, are among the earliest books on the subject to be illustrated with coloured plates..." (S. Raphael, An Oak Spring Pomona, 48). Nissen BBI, 1077 & 1078.