Rare Australian Bomurra Cammeral, or Potatoe Apple Fruit c1799.

by Harrison Cluse & Co

Small antique print. Bo-mur-ra Cam-mer-ral, named Potatoe Apple-Fruit by early European settlers (- as is the Potatoe Apple-Fruit Flower below?)

Original copperplate engraving c1799 with contemporary hand-colour from the Naturalist's Pocket Magazine; or, Compleat Cabinet of Curiosities and Beauties of Nature, containing elegant coloured prints of birds, fishes, flowers, insects, quadrupeds, shells, and other natural productions..", eight anonymously compiled books published in London between 1798 and 1802 by Harrison, Cluse & Co. No.78 Fleet Street, and from 1800, No.108 Newgate Street. This small engraving was one of 18 depicting Australian flora. 

This engraving has age-discolouration and print offset from adjacent page. The page measures 150 x 85mm (approximately 6 x 3 3/8 inches). The accompanying 3+ pages of text are available.