Commelinaceae, botanical prints, Antiquariaat Jan Meemelink, antiquarian flower books + prints

		Commelinaceae
		*Zebrina pendula* - Tradescantia x multicolor Mme Lequesne From: Revue de l’horticulture belge et étrangère by Frédéric Burvenich, Édouard Pynaert, Émile Rodigas, August van Geert & Hubert J. van Hulle (editors).

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Commelinaceae - Commelina coelestis From: The British flower garden by Robert Sweet. London, 1823, volume 1, plate 3. Hand-coloured engraving by J. Allais after E.D. Smith (sheet 138 x 225 mm). Text missing. € 40 * Pritzel 9077; Dunthorne 293; Nissen BBI 1923; Great flower books p. 77; Stafleu & Cowan 13.545; Johnston 872.
Commelinaceae - Dichorisandra aubletiana - Dichorisandra ovata From: Annales de la Société royale d’Agriculture et de Botanique de Gand, Journal d’horticulture by Charles Morren (editor). Gand [Gent], Local de la Société (Casino), etc., 1845, volume 1, plate 26. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 250 x 305 mm with fold). Text enclosed. € 85 Belgian horticultural journal, published from 1845-1849 by the Royal Agricultural and Botanical Society of Gent, organizer of the famous flower shows in Gent, Gentse Floraliën, since 1809. Started and edited by Charles Morren at the same time as the more successful competitor Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe of the nurseryman Louis van Houtte. * Nissen BBI 2212; Great flower books p. 84.
Commelinaceae - Dichorisandra pubescens x taeniensis From: Revue de l’horticulture belge et étrangère by Frédéric Burvenich, Oswald de Kerchove de Denterchem, Édouard Pynaert, August van Geert & Hubert J. van Hulle (editors). Gand [Gent], Bureau de la Revue, 1888, volume 14, plate 7. Chromolithograph (sheet 168 x 253 mm). Text enclosed. # € 40 Belgian monthly, published from 1875-1914, giving general information about horticulture, new introductions and varieties, exhibitions etc. Most colour-plates were drawn and lithographed by P. de Pannemaeker, one of the leading artists of this time when Gent became the horticultural centre of the continent. * BPH 781-22; not in Nissen BBI.
Commelinaceae - Tradescantia albo-vittata [?] From: Revue de l’horticulture belge et étrangère by Frédéric Burvenich, Oswald de Kerchove de Denterchem, Édouard Pynaert, Émile Rodigas, August van Geert & Hubert J. van Hulle (editors). Gand [Gent], Bureau de la Revue, 1885, volume 11, plate 16. Chromolithograph (sheet 167 x 253 mm). Text enclosed. # € 35 Belgian monthly, published from 1875-1914, giving general information about horticulture, new introductions and varieties, exhibitions etc. Most colour-plates were drawn and lithographed by P. de Pannemaeker, one of the leading artists of this time when Gent became the horticultural centre of the continent. * BPH 781-22; not in Nissen BBI.
Commelinaceae - Tradescantia discolor x vittata From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1856, volume 11, plate 1169-1170. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 240 x 415 mm with folds). Text enclosed. € 85 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.
Commelinaceae - Tradescantia reginae From: Revue de l’horticulture belge et étrangère by Frédéric Burvenich, Oswald de Kerchove de Denterchem, Édouard Pynaert, August van Geert & Hubert J. van Hulle (editors). Gand [Gent], Bureau de la Revue, 1893, volume 19, plate 9. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 243 x 157 mm). Short text enclosed. # € 40 Belgian monthly, published from 1875-1914, giving general information about horticulture, new introductions and varieties, exhibitions etc. Most colour-plates were drawn and lithographed by P. de Pannemaeker, one of the leading artists of this time when Gent became the horticultural centre of the continent. * BPH 781-22; not in Nissen BBI.
Commelinaceae - Tradescantia virginiana - Tradescantia virginica x fl. albo From: Curtis’s botanical magazine; or flower garden displayed. Conducted by Samual Curtis. The descriptions by William Jackson Hooker. London, Samual Curtis, 1836, volume 63, plate 3501. Hand-coloured engraving by Joseph Swan (sheet 160 x 253 mm). Text enclosed. € 55 "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. * Pritzel 2007; Dunthorne 88; Nissen BBI 2350; Great flower books pp. 83-84; Hunt 689; Henrey 472; Stafleu & Cowan 1290.
Commelinaceae - Tradescantia virginiana - Tradescantia virginica From: The native flowers and ferns of the United States in their botanical, horticultural, and popular aspects by Thomas Meehan. Boston, L. Prang, 1879, volume 1, plate 1. Chromolithograph by Louis Prang after Alois Lunzer (sheet 173 x 253 mm). Marginally stained and slightly foxed. Text enclosed. € 25 Thomas Meehan (1826-1901), a British-born nurseryman, was Kew gardener in 1846-1848; from 1853 at Germantown (Philadelphia). He was the editor of the Gardener’s monthly and the founder of Meehan’s monthly, a magazine of horticulture, botany, etc. The nice chromolithographed plates after paintings by Alois Lunzer and lithographed by Louis Prang, who published many books on natural history. * Nissen BBI 1331; Stafleu & Cowan 5783.
Commelinaceae - Zebrina pendula - Tradescantia x multicolor Mme Lequesne From: Revue de l’horticulture belge et étrangère by Frédéric Burvenich, Édouard Pynaert, Émile Rodigas, August van Geert & Hubert J. van Hulle (editors). Gand [Gent], Bureaux de la Revue, 1879, volume 5, plate 9. Chromolithograph (sheet 166 x 252 mm). Text enclosed. # € 40 Belgian monthly, published from 1875-1914 giving general information about horticulture, new introductions and varieties, exhibitions etc. Most colour-plates were drawn and lithographed by P. de Pannemaeker, one of the leading artists of this time when Gent became the horticultural centre of the continent. * BPH 781-22; not in Nissen BBI.
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