Postcard set of old fruit and vegetable varieties

For greeting cards, gift cards, invitation cards, for collecting or for decoration. In 15.4 x 10.8 cm format. In the 19th century, magnificent books with artistic botanical color plates were created by artists such as Pierre Antoine Poiteau, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, and Pierre Jean François Turpin. Over the years, the seed companies Ernst Benary and Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie commissioned high-quality illustrated plates of their vegetable varieties, which were published as Album Vilmorin and Album Benary. The decorative historical illustrations of pears, quinces, plums, pea pods, chard, and carrots are timelessly beautiful and just as fascinating for art lovers as they are for botanists.