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Martin, Aimé: Le langage des fleurs. Bruxelles, Société Belge de Librairie Hauman, 1840, pp. [iii], 291, 14 fine stipple-engraved colour-printed plates finished by hand (incl. frontispiece) by Bessa and engraved by Slaes, 12mo, morocco-backed marbled boards, spine with gilt decoration (slightly rubbed). Slightly foxed. € 225
A later Belgian edition of a charming flower book. The colour-plates by Redouté, of which Pancrace Bessa was a
pupil, were executed with the same process.
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