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Rare Books
[Albums of hand colored plates of illustrations of Yokohama Nursery catalogs]
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- Description
- Four volumes containing hand-colored plates of iris, magnolia, bamboo, and camellia issued as Yokohama Nursery catalogs. The Yokohama Nursery was founded in 1890 in the city of Yokohama, Japan. It rapidly gained an international reputation for modern horticultural practices and expanded its business network to various overseas markets. In 1912, they shipped out cherry saplings that were planted alongside the Potomac River in Washington D.C. The volumes for bamboo, camellia and magnolia have numbered lists of the images. The first catalog for Iris Kaempferi appeared in 1890.
- Publication date
- [approximately 1890]
- Call number
- 313584
