1890 Antique Pear botanical print - Pierers music teacher gift The actual print is glued

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

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1890 Antique Pear botanical print - Pierers music teacher gift The actual print is gluedRARE 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),