The Apples of New York, Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1903, in Two Volumes

Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1905. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. A few minor scuffs to boards, volume 1 binding repaired, edges and front/end matter of volume 2 foxed, owner sticker on front flyleaf of first volume, ink stamp on front endpaper of volume 2. 1905 Hard Cover. Complete in two volumes. 8vo. xx, 409; iv, 360 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles and decorations, numerous color plates of various apple species throughout. Part of a larger series commissioned by the New York Agricultural Department, still valued today for their detailed descriptions and images. Modern attempts to reproduce this set have not successfully captured the quality of illustration achieved in the original.