Vintage "Complete Book of Fruits & Vegetables" Illustrated Hardcover🍊🫒

Vintage "Complete Book of Fruits & Vegetables" hardcover encyclopedic book with beautiful full color illustrations. Illustrated with 110 paintings showing over 400 fruits and vegetables, including lifelike botanical anatomy of seeds, roots, leaves, flowers, fruits and vegetables, etc. Gorgeous full page, detailed and colorful illustrations by Marilena Pistoia (see pics for samples). Text includes detailed information about the fruit or vegetable. Includes glossary, appendix, bibliography, index of Latin names, and index of common names. The text and illustrations are arranged by Cereals, Vegetables, Fungi, Fruit, Herbs and Spices, Stimulants, Starch and Oil- yielding Plants. Cover jacket has some wear from storage but pages are in excellent condition...no rips, stains or fading. A must have for any kitchen, coffee table or library.🍊🫒 Release Date: January 1976 Publisher: Crown Publishers, inc. Illustrator: Marilena Pistoia Authors: Francesco Bianchini and Francesco Corbetta Length: 303 Pages Weight: 3.54 lbs. kitchen, cooking, botany, plants, illustrations, art, still life, reference