1890 Antique Pear botanical print - Pierers music teacher gift which illustrated the "Botanique" article

which illustrated the "Botanique" article of a 1938 French Quillet dictionary

This great piece of tropical bird wall art comes from a 1961 French Swiss book "Oiseaux de Paradis et Colibris"

The birds are represented at about 2/3 of their natural size

𝗔𝗨𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗬 : What you will receive is an actual book page from 1916 that comes from a damaged volume

The actual print is glued onto the book page along its left edge

1890 Antique Pear botanical print - Pierers music teacher gift which illustrated the "Botanique" articleRARE FIND! Here is an interesting little antique pear botanical print, extracted from a 1890 German Pierers dictionary. This vintage fruit illustration was the dictionary entry for "Birne", which means pears in German. This vintage engraving is in German and shows lovely illustrations of heirloom varieties of pears with poetic names: Graue Dechanstbirne (Doyenne d'Automne in French), Rote Bergamotte (red bergamot), Der KuhFuss (Cow's foot),