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Centradenia floribunda From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gent, Louis van Houtte, 1849, volume 5 (plate 453). Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 162 x 238 mm). Text enclosed. € 80
The founder, publisher
and part-editor of this lavish Belgian periodical was Louis van Houtte,
the propietor of the largest nursery of its time on the continent. It
appeared monthly for almost 40 years and was published by his own printing
office in the middle of the gardens, the Horto van Houtteano. All the
plants shown were for sale in his nursery and include many exotics. The
work is notable for the craftmanship of the Belgian lithographers
Severeyns, Stroobant and De Pannemaker, who had mastered the art of
colour-printing from stone. * Nissen BBI 2254; Great flower books p. 84; Stafleu & Cowan 15.921.
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