Imprint and date from bookseller Martayan Lan datasheet.

A glimpse "into the commercial operations of the wider European horticultural world in the first years of the 19th century."--Martayan Lan datasheet.

"This ... handbill announces the arrival ... of itinerant Parisian sellers of exotic trees, shrubs and flowering plants for the use of florists and gardeners."--Martayan Lan datasheet.

"At the foot of the flyer is a formulaic sentence with blank spaces for the travelling plant-sellers to fill out to let prospective buyers know where they would be staying in town and how long they intended to sojourn [in Italian and in French]: "We are lodged at [blank] and will be staying for [blank] days in this town."-- Martayan Lan datasheet.

"In addition to handing out such leaflets [as this] to individual buyers (at local plant shops, etc.), the travelling plant sellers apparently approached the local media, for in the newspapers of the time there can be seen announcements of the arrival of such Paris plant-sellers which closely follow the verbal formula seen on the ... leaflet..."--Martayan Lan datasheet.

Double sided letterpress leaf.

Italian and French.

Lib. copy has at bottom on Italian-language side: Essi sono d'alloggio au Chapeau Rouge [in ink script] e vi resteranno 3 [in ink] giorni in questa Citta.

Lib. copy has marked at right of words on Italian-language side: Specie di Camellia; Specie di Calicanto; Specie d'Erica; Specie di Magnollia; Varieta d'Ortensia.

Lib. copy deckled on 2 edges.