Pomology.- Bivort (A.J.D) Album de Pomologie, 4 vol., 3 hand-coloured lithograph additional titles, 191 hand-coloured lithograph plates (?of 192), 1 text f. loose in vol.2, occasional light foxing, mostly to text, contemporary half calf, gilt, morocco labels to upper covers, covers slightly marked, oblong folio, Brussels, 1847-51.

⁂ One of the rarest pomological works every published; not mentioned in Nissen, Dunthorne, and Stafleu and Cowan. Oak Spring Pomona records 192 plates (with 49 plates in volume 1, rather than our copy with 48), but most copies have 191 plates.

Bunyard describes the work as follows: "(It) is of great value as it contains coloured plates and accurate descriptions of many of Van Mons' seedlings and it forms a wonderful record of the great number of new fruits which were at this time being raised in Belgium."

"The de Belder copy sold at Sotheby's in London on 27 April 1987 and described in the sale catalogue (lot 27) as 'a pomological rarity', had only three volumes and 137 plates, like the copy in the Lindley Library of the Royal Horticultural Society. There is no copy at all in the British Library, the library of the British Museum (Natural History), or the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, but there is at least one other full set in America, in the library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in Boston" (An Oak Spring Pomona 53).