Gesneriaceae - Dichrotrichum ternateum, Antiquariaat Jan Meemelink Den Haag, antique, antiquarian, flower prints, fruit prints, flower painting, fruit painting, print, arts, botany, botanical art, artists, artist, crafts, decoration, botanical illustration, scientific illustration, science, pictures, portraits, portrait prints, art, flowers, plants, collecting, graphic arts, chromolithograph, chromolithographed plates, chromolithography, colour-plates, copper-engraving, steel-engraving, wood-engraving, nature-printing, nature printing, aquatint, stipple-engraving, offered for sale, Jan Meemelink, antiquarian book dealer, print dealer, print seller, 's-Gravenhage, Nederland, Netherlands

Gesneriaceae - Dichrotrichum ternateum
From: Tuinbouw-flora van Nederland en zijne overzeesche bezittingen; bevattende de geschiedenis en afbeeldingen van nieuwe of merkwaardige planten, bloemen, vruchten, mededeelingen omtrent de kultuur in haren geheelen omvang, in betrekking tot Nederland en zijne overzeesche bezittingen by Willem Hendrik de Vriese.
Leiden, A.W. Sythoff, 1856, volume 3. Lithograph (sheet 330 x 472 mm with folds). Text enclosed.

€ 100

Only 3 volumes were published from 1855-1856 of this finely illustrated work about the horticulure and floriculture of especially Indonesia. The fine plates are by J. v. Aken, A. Brouwer, Q.M.R. Ver Huell and A.J. Wendel, lithographed by A.J. Bos, Riocreux, P.W.M. Trap, A.J. Wendel and Wohlfart. The author, Willem Hendrik de Vriese (1806-1862), a Dutch botanist, studied medicine in Leiden, practicing and lecturing in Rotterdam, was professor of botany in Amsterdam and travelled in the Dutch East Indies from 1858-1861.
* Great flower books p. 80; Nissen BBI 2089; Stafleu & Cowan 16.422; Landwehr 210.

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