Pear Culture. A Manual for the Propagation, Planting, Cultivation, and management of the Pear Tree.

New York: A.O. Moore, 1859. Book. 8vo, orig. brown stamped cloth, gilt. Pp. viii, [13]-286. Color litho frontis.; 3 plates; illus. Some foxing to frontis.; moderate rubbing, an excellent copy. First edition, by the Brooklyn nurseryman and bibliographer of American Indian history. An attractive copy of a standard authority, issued at the height of the pear's popularity. Hedrick considered it "about the best book of the times devoted to a single fruit." - p. 494. Mass Hort Cat, p. 97; Oak Springs Pomona 84..