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Ericaceae - Rhododendron javanicum
From: Plantae javanicae rariores, descriptae iconibus illustratae, … by John Joseph
Bennett, Robert Brown & Thomas Horsfield.
London, W.H. Allen, 1838-1852,, plate 20. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 262 x 370 mm). Text missing.€ 130
Horsfield, an American surgeon and naturalist lived in Java for sixteen years,
employed by the East India Co., where he assembled a herbarium amounting to some
2100 species. On his return to England he entrusted the cataloguing and
identification of the specimens to Robert Brown, who also arranged publication.
The determinations and descriptions were mostly the work of Bennett. The finely
engraved 50 plates are by John Curtis and E. Weddell after Charles and John
Curtis.
* Pritzel 613; Jackson p. 396*; Nissen BBI 934; Great flower books
p. 49; Stafleu & Cowan 418.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron javanicum
From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others.
Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1847, volume 3, plate 293-294. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet
232 x 314 mm with sharp folds and marginal repair). Text enclosed.€ 75
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.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron javanicum subsp. brookeanum
- Rhododendron brookeanum
From: Flore des serres et
des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others.
Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1857, volume 12, plate 1238-1239. Chromolithograph finished by
hand (sheet 240 x 340 mm with folds). Text enclosed.€ 100
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.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron javanicum x flore aurantiaco
From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others.
Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1850, volume 6, plate 576. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 160 x 240 mm). Slightly
browned. Text enclosed.€ 75
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.
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Ericaceae -
Rhododendron javanicum Maiden’s blush
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 12.
Chromolithograph (sheet 168 x 253 mm). Text enclosed.€ 50
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.
* B-P-H 781-22; not in Nissen BBI.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron keysii
From: Flore des serres et des
jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others.
Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1856, volume 11, plate 1110. Chromolithograph finished by hand
(sheet 160 x 240 mm). Text enclosed.€ 55
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.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron ledifolium - Rhododendron (Azalea) ledifolium
Queen Victoria
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., 1849, volume 5, plate 248. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 170 x 256 mm).
Text enclosed.€ 50
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.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron maddeni
From: Flore des serres et des
jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others.
Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1854, volume 9, plate 912. Chromolithograph finished by hand
(sheet 158 x 244 mm). Text enclosed.€ 50
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.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron maximum
From: Afbeeldingen der fraaiste, meest uitheemsche boomen en heesters by Johan Carl Krauss.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802 [-1808]. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 230
x 280 mm). Text enclosed.€ 125
Rare Dutch work on shrubs and trees, with splendid, highly finished plates, showing details as
fruits, flowers, branches, seeds, etc. The work was orginally published in
21 parts, each containing 6 plates, but publication was discontinued
because of insufficient sales. The author (1759-1826) was a German-born professor of medicine at Leiden.
* Pritzel 4872; Great flower books p.
63; Nissen BBI 1102; Landwehr 98; Stafleu & Cowan 3927.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron occidentale - Azalea occidentalis
From: Die Gartenwelt. Illustriertes Wochenblatt für den gesamten Gartenbau by Max Hesdörffer (editor).
Leipzig, Richard Carl Schmidt, 1916, volume 20. Chromolithographed plate by Johanna Beckmann (sheet 223 x 285 mm).
Text enclosed in photocopy.€ 70
The artist and poet Johanna Beckmann was well-known for her silhouette paintings for the royal porcelain factory and her
paper-cuttings. At the turn of the century she started to work for the gardener
and publisher Max Hesdörffer. For his Gartenwelt she painted the fine colour-plates.
* Nissen BBI 2295n.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron ponticum
From: Flora.
Afbeeldingen en beschrijvingen van boomen, heesters, éénjarige planten, enz.,
voorkomende in de Nederlandsche tuinen by Heinrich Witte.
Groningen, J.B.
Wolters, (1868), plate 17. Chromolithograph by G. Severeyns after Abraham
Jacobus Wendel (sheet 224 x 302 mm). Text enclosed.€ 160
Heinrich Witte, a Dutch gardener, was assistant curator and head-curator at the Leiden botanical
garden from 1855-1898. The decorative colour-plates depict the most attractive
Dutch garden plants, shrubs and trees of its time, finely lithographed by G.
Severeyns of Brussels after paintings by Abraham Jacobus Wendel.
* Pritzel 10.366; Nissen BBI 2174; Stafleu & Cowan 18.090; Landwehr 213.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron ponticum
From: La flore et la pomone françaises, ou histoire et figures en couleur, des fleurs et des
fruits de France ou naturalisés sur le sol français by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire.
Paris, the author, 1830, volume 3, plate 208. Unsigned
stipple-engraving in colour by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire finished by hand
(uncut and unbound sheet 175 x 265). Text enclosed in photocopy. Slight pale
halo round flower and small spot outside figure.€ 50
Very rare work, which
was published in parts from 1828-1833 in 6 volumes by the French botanist and
artist Jaume Saint-Hilaire (1772-1845). It was planned to issue 800 plates but
the regular publication was terminated with plate 544. Among those who worked
under van Spaëndonck or Redouté, or who based their style on the pure
water-colour technique which Redouté learned from his master, may be mentioned
Turpin, Poiteau, Bessa, Mme Vincent (b. 1786), Jaume-Saint-Hilaire, Chazal and
Prêtre. Most of these artists were the equals of Redouté in technical skill, and
given his opportunities might have won the same renown. … Jaume-Saint-Hilaire
was no less distinguished as a botanist, and his introduction into France of
Polygonum tinctorum, which yields a valuable blue dye, was of considerable
importance (Blunt).
* Pritzel 4404; Dunthorne 160; Blunt pp. 180, 182; Nissen
BBI 988; Great flower books p. 61; Stafleu & Cowan 3311; Johnston 943.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron ponticum [?] - Rhododendron
pontico-catawbiense Étoile de Villiers
From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others.
Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1856, volume 11, plate 1084. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 160 x 240 mm). Text
enclosed.€ 50
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.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron ponticum x
azaleoides torloniana
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 4. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 168
x 257 mm). Light waterstain in margin. Text enclosed.€ 45
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.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron retusum
From: Plantae javanicae rariores, descriptae iconibus illustratae, … by John Joseph
Bennett, Robert Brown & Thomas Horsfield.
London, W.H. Allen, 1838-1852, plate 20. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 262 x 372 mm). Text missing.€ 110
Horsfield, an American surgeon and naturalist lived in Java for sixteen years,
employed by the East India Co., where he assembled a herbarium amounting to some
2100 species. On his return to England he entrusted the cataloguing and
identification of the specimens to Robert Brown, who also arranged publication.
The determinations and descriptions were mostly the work of Bennett. The finely
engraved 50 plates are by John Curtis and E. Weddell after Charles and John
Curtis.
* Pritzel 613; Jackson p. 396*; Nissen BBI 934; Great flower books p. 49; Stafleu & Cowan 418.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron retusum
From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others.
Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1855, volume 10, plate 1044. Chromolithograph finished by hand
(sheet 160 x 240 mm). Text enclosed.€ 40
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.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron sinense - Azalea sinensis x bylsiana
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 27. Hand-coloured lithograph by Alex.
Lagarde (sheet 167 x 257 mm). Marginally waterstained. Text enclosed in
photocopy.€ 45
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.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron sinense - Azalea sinensis x
macrantha
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., 1847, volume 3, plate
122. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 165 x 250 mm). Text enclosed.€ 45
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.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron x smithii
From: Flora
and sylva. A monthly review for lovers of garden, woodland, tree or flower; new
and rare plants, trees, shrubs, and fruits; the garden beautiful, home woods,
and home landscape by William Robinson (editor).
London, the editor, 1904, volume 2, no. 14. Chromolithograph after painting by H.G. Moon (sheet 235 x 320
mm). Partly slighly foxed. Finely illustrated uncut text of half issue enclosed.€ 80
All gardeners owe an infinite debt of gratitude to William Robinson -
founder of The Garden (1871-1927) and Flora and Sylva (1903-05),
and author of The English Flower Garden (1883, etc.) and other works -
who helped to break the tyranny of formal bedding and, like Ruskin, drew
attention to the beauties of the wild garden. Among the artists whom he employed
was Henry Moon, who struck a new and personal, if not entirely healthy, note in
botanical illustration. … (Blunt & Stearn). Of the well-produced monthly
journal Flora and sylva, printed on hand-made paper, only 3 volumes with
66 colour-plates after paintings by Henry George Moon were published.
* Blunt
& Stearn pp. 238-240; Nissen BBI 2251.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron vittatum
- Azalea vittata
x beali
From: La Belgique horticole, journal des jardins et des vergers
founded by Charles François Antoine Morren and edited by Charles Jacques Édouard
Morren.
Liège [Luik], La Direction Générale, 1866, volume 16, plate 1. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 250 x 159 mm).
Text enclosed.€ 50
Important Belgian periodical. A total of 35 volumes were produced from 1851-1885
by the Morrens, father and son. Charles François Antoine was director of the
Jardin botanique de l’Université de Liège and professor of botany and his son,
Charles Jacques Édouard, was also director of the Jardin botanique de
l’Université de Liège and specialist on Bromeliaceae.
* Nissen BBI 2218; Stafleu
& Cowan pp. 592-593.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron wightii
From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others.
Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1853, volume 8, plate 792-793. Chromolithograph finished by hand
(sheet 238 x 339 mm with folds). Text enclosed.€ 105
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.
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Ericaceae - Rhododendron yunnanense
From: Flora
and sylva. A monthly review for lovers of garden, woodland, tree or flower; new
and rare plants, trees, shrubs, and fruits; the garden beautiful, home woods,
and home landscape by William Robinson (editor).
London, the editor, 1904, volume 2, no. 21. Chromolithograph after painting by H.G. Moon (sheet 235 x 320
mm). Slightly foxed. Finely illustrated uncut text of half issue enclosed.€ 80
All gardeners owe an infinite debt of gratitude to William Robinson - founder
of The Garden (1871-1927) and Flora and Sylva (1903-05), and
author of The English Flower Garden (1883, etc.) and other works - who
helped to break the tyranny of formal bedding and, like Ruskin, drew attention
to the beauties of the wild garden. Among the artists whom he employed was Henry
Moon, who struck a new and personal, if not entirely healthy, note in botanical
illustration. … (Blunt & Stearn). Of the well-produced monthly journal Flora
and sylva, printed on hand-made paper, only 3 volumes with 66 colour-plates
after paintings by Henry George Moon were published.
* Blunt & Stearn pp. 238-240; Nissen BBI 2251.
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