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Iridaceae - Ixia columellaris From: Curtis’s botanical magazine. Edited by John Sims. London, T. Curtis, 1803, volume 17, plate 630. Hand-coloured plate by Sydenham Teast Edwards, engraved by Francis Sansom (sheet 150 x 243 mm). Text missing. € 45
The first and most important botanical magazine made up of ‘figures’ of plants and short descriptions.
Provides a storehouse of exotics, paralleling the indigenous plants … (Hunt).
A delightful work pictorially, never excelled as a periodical, most carefully
coloured and a source of lasting interest and information (Dunthorne). Started
by William Curtis in 1787 publication still continues.* Dunthorne 88; Nissen BBI 2350; Great flower books pp. 83-84; Hunt 689; Stafleu & Cowan 1290.
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