Nouveau Langage Des Fleurs. Le symbolisme et le langage des fleurs, leur histoire et leurs origines mythologiques, ainsi que les plus beaux vers composés à ce sujet.
Bruxelles (Brussels): Lacrosse Booksellers and Publishers, 1839. 12mo. Item #024098
Title translation: (New The Language of Fowers; The symbol and language of flowers, their history and mythological origin, as well as the most beautiful verses composed on the subject). 298 pp., half-title, vignette title page, hand colored floral bouquet frontispiece, along with 21 other beautiful hand colored plates of flowers. To this issue, the publishers have added a dictionary of the language of flowers with the origin of the meanings. A charming little book bound in full red morocco ruled and decorated in gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, double ruled morocco turn-ins, all edges gilt, pale yellow endpapers.
Price: $250.00