1890 Antique Pear botanical print - Pierers music teacher gift This great piece of tropical

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

Remember your trip to beautiful Belgium in style

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

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

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

1890 Antique Pear botanical print - Pierers music teacher gift This great piece of tropicalRARE 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),