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Corylaceae - Corylus americana + Corylus avellana From: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Planches … Botanique classée d’après la méthode naturelle de M. Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu by Pierre Jean François Turpin. Paris & Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1816-1829, volume 5 (plate 302-303). Hand-coloured engravings after Turpin (sheet 120 x 213 mm). € 130
Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775-1840) was possibly the greatest botanical
genius of all the French botanical painters of his day … In particular, his
drawings of botanical details have rarely been surpassed. ... (Blunt). With
Pierre-Antoine Poiteau he collaborated in some of the most important botanical
publications of the early years of the nineteenth century. In the finely
illustrated botanical part of the Dictionnaire … the plates by several
engravers were issued uncoloured or coloured.* Pritzel 10.722; Nissen BBI 2239; Blunt p. 180 ff.; Stafleu & Cowan 1293 & 15.384. www.meemelink.com · index · Corylaceae |