Portraits  K-Z
Redouté, Pierre-Joseph (1759-1840). Luxemburg-born botanical artist who settled in Paris in 1782. The most successful flower painter of all time, the Master of Drawing to a long succession of the queens of France from Marie-Antoinette in the 1780’s to Marie-Amélie in the 1830’s.
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Kelway, James (1815-1899). Horticulturist, who founded Kelways Nursery in 1851, Langport, specialist in peony cultivation.
From: The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches by William Robinson (editor).
London, 1889, July - December, volume 36, Wood-engraving (sheet 223 x 287 mm; impression 138 x 187 mm).
~ € 60
 Kelway, James
Kickx, Jean, jr. (1803-1864). Belgian botanist and malacologist.
From: Revue de l’horticulture belge et étrangère by Frédéric Burvenich, Oswald de Kerchove de Denterghem, Édouard Pynaert, Émile Rodigas, August van Geert & H.J. van Hulle (editors).
Gand [Gent], Bureaux de la Revue, 1877, volume 3. Wood-engraving (sheet 165 x 250 mm). Text by Oswald de Kerchove de Denterghem enclosed.
€ 40
Latour-Marliac, Joseph Bory (1830-1911). French horticulturalist, specialist of ornamental aquatic plants. In his nursery at Temple-sur-Lot he worked on the hybridisation of water lilies.
From: The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches by William Robinson (editor).
London, 1893, July - December, volume 44. Wood-engraving (sheet 222 x 282 mm; impression 122 x 162 mm). Text enclosed.
~ € 65
 Latour-Marliac, Joseph Bory
Laurence, John (1668-1732). English clergyman and writer on gardening.
From: The clergy-man’s recreation: shewing the pleasure and profit of the art of gardening, … by John Laurence.
London, Bernard Lintott, 1726, 6. edition. Engraved frontispiece-portrait of the author by George Vertue (sheet 118 x 192 mm; impression 193 x 153 mm). This portrait was only published in the 6. and last edition and is wanting in many copies.
€ 175
Lecoq, Henri (1802-1871). French botanist, professor of natural history and director of the botanic garden at Clermont-Ferrand.
From: La Belgique horticole, journal des jardins et des vergers founded by Charles François Antoine Morren and edited by Charles Jacques Édouard Morren.
Liège [Luik], La Direction Générale, 1871, volume 21. Lithograph (sheet 158 x 250 mm). Partly waterstained, affecting image. Extensive text by André de Vos enclosed.
€ 25
Lee, John (1715-1795). British nursery gardener, partner with Lewis Kennedy at the Royal Vineyard nursery, Hammersmith. Introduced plants from America and the Cape.
From: The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches by William Robinson (editor).
London, 1884, July - December, volume 26. Original photograph in wood-engraved border (sheet 217 x 280 mm). Text enclosed.
~ € 160
 		Lee, John
Legrelle-d’Hanis, Louis-Jean-François (1817-1852). Promotor of Belgian horticulture and plant collector.
From: La Belgique horticole, journal des jardins et des vergers by Charles François Antoine Morren.
Liège [Luik], La Direction Générale, 1853, volume 3. Lithograph (sheet 152 x 236 mm). Text enclosed.
€ 50
Libert, Marie-Anne (1782-1865). Belgian botanist, published on cryptogams.
From: La Belgique horticole, journal des jardins et des vergers founded by Charles François Antoine Morren and edited by Charles Jacques Édouard Morren.
Liège [Luik], La Direction Générale, 1868, volume 18. Lithograph (sheet 160 x 250 mm). Extensive text by by Charles Jacques Édouard Morren enclosed.
€ 75
Low, Stuart Henry (1826-1890). Nurseryman at Clapton, established Bush Hill Park Nursery, Enfield in 1882.
From: The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches by William Robinson (editor). London, 1890, January - July, volume 37. Wood-engraving (sheet 218 x 282 mm; impression 122 x 160 mm). Text enclosed.
€ 55
 		Low, Stuart Henry
Martius, Carl Friedrich Philipp von (1794-1868). German botanical traveller, ethnologist and botanist.
From: l’Illustration horticole, journal spécial des serres et des jardins by Charles Lemaire (editor) and published by Ambroise Verschaffelt.
Gand [Gent], F. et E. Gyselynck, 1858, volume 5. Mounted lithograph by L. Stroobant (sheet 169 x 255 mm). Text enclosed.
€ 100
Mons, Jean Baptiste van (1765-1842). Belgian pomologist.
From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others.
Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1849, volume 5. Tinted lithograph after Madou (sheet 162 x 238 mm). Text enclosed (partly in photocopy).
€ 100
Moore, Charles (1820-1905). Scottish-born Australian botanist. For over forty years curator of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
 From: The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches by William Robinson (editor).
London, 1887, July - December, volume 32. Wood-engraving (sheet 220 x 283 mm; impression 117 x 185 mm).
~ € 60
 Moore, Charles
Morren, Charles François Antoine (1807-1858). Belgian botanist and horticulturist. Director of the Jardin botanique de l’Université de Liège.
From: Revue de l’horticulture belge et étrangère by Frédéric Burvenich, Oswald de Kerchove de Denterghem, Édouard Pynaert, Émile Rodigas, August van Geert & H.J. van Hulle (editors).
Gand [Gent], Bureaux de la Revue, 1878, volume 4. Wood-engraving (sheet 165 x 251 mm). Text by Oswald de Kerchove de Denterghem enclosed.
€ 40
Morren, Charles Jacques Édouard (1833-1886). Belgian botanist, professor of botany and director of the Jardin botanique de l'Université de Liège; specialist on Bromeliaceae.
From: Revue de l’horticulture belge et étrangère by Frédéric Burvenich, Oswald de Kerchove de Denterghem, Édouard Pynaert, August van Geert & H.J. van Hulle (editors).
Gand [Gent], Bureau de la Revue, 1886, volume 12. Wood-engraving (sheet 169 x 258 mm). Text by O.K. (Oswald de Kerchove de Denterghem) enclosed.
€ 40
Mueller, Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von (1825-1896). Leading Australian botanist and botanical explorer of German birth.
From: Revue de l’horticulture belge et étrangère by Frédéric Burvenich, Édouard Pynaert, Émile Rodigas, August van Geert & H.J. van Hulle (editors).
Gand [Gent], Bureaux de la Revue, 1879, volume 5. Wood-engraving (sheet 168 x 252 mm). Text by Eug. de Duren enclosed.
€ 40
Nordenskiöld, Adolph Erik (1832-1901). Finnish-born Swedish explorer, geographer and geologist.
From: Revue de l’horticulture belge et étrangère by Frédéric Burvenich, Édouard Pynaert, Émile Rodigas, August van Geert & H.J. van Hulle (editors).
Gand [Gent], Bureaux de la Revue, 1880, volume 6. Wood-engraving (sheet 167 x 252 mm). Text by Eug. de Duren enclosed.
€ 30
Papeians de Morchoven, Théodore-François-Marie-Philippe (1792-1846). Soldier and promotor of Belgian horticulture.
From: Annales de la Société royale d’Agriculture et de Botanique de Gand, Journal d’horticulture by Charles Morren (editor).
Gand [Gent], Local de la Société (Casino), etc., 1846, volume 2. Mounted lithograph by Ch. Billoin (sheet 170 x 257 mm). Text by Charles Morren enclosed.
~ € 70
 Papeians de Morchoven, Théodore-François-Marie-Philippe
Pearson, John Royston (1819-1876). British horticulturist and florist of the Chilwell nursery with a special interest for tulips, fruit culture and orchard houses.
From: The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches by William Robinson (editor).
London, 1886, January - June, volume 29. Wood-engraving (sheet 217 x 280 mm; impression 116 x 138 mm). Text enclosed.
~ € 60
 Pearson, John Royston
Redouté, Pierre-Joseph (1759-1840). Luxemburg-born botanical artist who settled in Paris in 1782. The most successful flower painter of all time, the Master of Drawing to a long succession of the queens of France from Marie-Antoinette in the 1780’s to Marie-Amélie in the 1830’s.
From: La Belgique horticole, journal des jardins et des vergers founded by Charles François Antoine Morren and edited by Charles Jacques Édouard Morren.
Liège [Luik], La Direction Générale, 1873, volume 23. Lithograph (sheet 160 x 247 mm). Text by André de Vos enclosed.
€ 80
Regel, Édouard [Eduard] von (1815-1892). German botanist, engaged with several botanical gardens and finally director of the imperial botanical garden St. Petersburg.
From: La Belgique horticole, journal des jardins et des vergers founded by Charles François Antoine Morren and edited by Charles Jacques Édouard Morren.
Liège [Luik], La Direction Générale, 1869, volume 19. Lithograph (sheet 156 x 250 mm). Text enclosed.
€ 55
Reichenbach, Heinrich Gustav (1823-1889). German botanist, especially orchidologist, professor of botany and director of the botanical garden Hamburg.
From: Revue de l’horticulture belge et étrangère by Frédéric Burvenich, Oswald de Kerchove de Denterchem, Édouard Pynaert, Émile Rodigas, Émile Rodigas, August van Geert & H.J. van Hulle (editors).
Gand [Gent], Bureau de la Revue, 1889, volume 15 (pp. 125-127). Wood-engraved full-page text-illustration (sheet 172 x 257 mm). Text by Oswald de Kerchove de Denterchem enclosed.
€ 25
Rigouts, François-Joseph (1796-1867). Belgian pharmacologist, botanist and horticulturist.
From: La Belgique horticole, journal des jardins et des vergers founded by Charles François Antoine Morren and edited by Charles Jacques Édouard Morren.
Liège [Luik], La Direction Générale, 1868, volume 18. Steel-engraving (sheet 165 x 251 mm). Text by C. Broeckx enclosed.
€ 50
Rolin, Hippolyte Promotor of Belgian horticulture.
From: Revue de l’horticulture belge et étrangère by Frédéric Burvenich, Édouard Pynaert, Émile Rodigas, August van Geert & H.J. van Hulle (editors).
Gand [Gent], Bureaux de la Revue, 1883, volume 9. Engraving/etching (sheet 167 x 253 mm). Extensive text enclosed about the exhibition of 1883.
€ 70
Royer, Auguste-Philippe-Antoine (1796-1867). Pomologist and promotor of Belgian horticulture.
From: La Belgique horticole, journal des jardins et des vergers founded by Charles François Antoine Morren and edited by Charles Jacques Édouard Morren.
Liège [Luik], La Direction Générale, 1867, volume 17. Lithograph (sheet 160 x 247 mm). Text by Charles Jacques Édouard Morren enclosed.
€ 60
Rumpf (Rumphius), Georg Eberhard (1628-1702). German-born Dutch naturalist, enlisted with the Dutch West and East Indian Company; blind from 1670 and staying in Ambon mainly dedicating himself to the writing of his publications.
From: Flora van Nederlandsch Indië by Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel.
Amsterdam, C.G. van der Post, etc., 1855. Lithograph by Ch. Binger after C.C.A. Last (sheet 143 x 224 mm). Foxed (mainly marginal).
€ 100
Scholten C.W.R. jr. & H.H. Scholten-Commelin. Founders of the Phytopathologisch Laboratorium "Willie Commelin Scholten" Baarn, Netherlands, in memory of their son.
From: Tijdschrift voor tuinbouw by H. Bos, A. Ide, Ernst H. Krelage, B.A. Plemper van Balen and Leonard A. Springer. Groningen, J.B. Wolters, 1899, volume 4. Photograph (sheet 153 x 243 mm). Text by Heinrich Witte enclosed.
€ 30
Suringar, Willem Frederik Reinier (1832-1898). Dutch botanist, professor of botany University of Leiden and director of the Rijksherbarium.
From: Tijdschrift voor tuinbouw by H. Bos, A. Ide, Ernst H. Krelage, B.A. Plemper van Balen and Leonard A. Springer.
Groningen, J.B. Wolters, 1899, volume 4. Photograph (sheet 153 x 243 mm). Text by Heinrich Witte enclosed.
€ 30
Warocqué, Arthur (1835-1880). Promotor of Belgian horticulture.
From: Revue de l’horticulture belge et étrangère by Frédéric Burvenich, Édouard Pynaert, Émile Rodigas, August van Geert & H.J. van Hulle (editors).
Gand [Gent], Bureaux de la Revue, 1880, volume 6. Wood-engraving (sheet 164 x 252 mm). Text by Oswald de Kerchove de Denterghem enclosed.
€ 30

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