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Geraniaceae - Monsonia lobata From: Herbier général de l’amateur by Jean Louis Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps & Jean Claude Michel Mordant de Launay. Paris or Bruxelles, [ca. 1830]. Hand-coloured engraving by Le Jeune after Pancrace Bessa (sheet 152 x 255 mm; impression 130 x 210 mm). Text missing. € 70
This attractive work was also issued in Brussels as
Herbier de l’amateur de fleurs. It is not certain to which issue this
plate belongs. Most of the highly decorative plates are by Pancrace Bessa,
a pupil of Pierre-Joseph Redouté.* Pritzel 5586; Nissen BBI 2323; Great flower books p. 85; Stafleu & Cowan 4952; Johnston 795.
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