Gesneriaceae.

Gesneriaceae
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Flowering plants in the Old World and New World tropics and subtropics, with a few in temperate areas. Many species have colorful and showy flowers and are cultivated as ornamental plants.

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Gesneriaceae - Achimenes amabilis - Tydaea amabilis. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1855 [1856], volume 10, plate 1070. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 160 x 240 mm). Text enclosed. € 65 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.
Gesneriaceae - Achimenes foliosa. 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., 1846, volume 2, plate 91. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 168 x 255 mm). Text enclosed. € 55 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.
Gesneriaceae - Achimenes heterophylla - Achimenes ignescens. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1847, volume 3, plate 248. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 156 x 237 mm). Text enclosed. € 45 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.
Gesneriaceae - Achimenes longiflora x *alba. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe* by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1849, volume 5, plate 536. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 160 x 239 mm). Slight offset. 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.
Gesneriaceae - Achimenes multiflora. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1845, volume 1. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 157 x 238 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.
*Gesneriaceae - Achimenes ocellata.* From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1848, volume 4, plate 336. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 160 x 241 mm). Text enclosed. € 65 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. * Great flower books p. 84; Nissen BBI 2254; Stafleu & Cowan 15.921.
Gesneriaceae - Achimenes patens. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1847, volume 3, plate 245. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 160 x 235 mm). Slightly browned. 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.
Gesneriaceae - Achimenes rosea. 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 113. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 168 x 258 mm). Text enclosed. € 55 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.
Gesneriaceae - Achimenes scheerii - Scheeria mexicana. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1854, volume 9, plate 891. Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant finished by hand (sheet 158 x 243 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.
Gesneriaceae - Achimenes (Tydaea) new varieties. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe by Louis van Houtte and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1858 (1859), volume 13, plate 1291. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 165 x 253 mm). Text enclosed. € 60 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. * Great flower books p. 84; Nissen BBI 2254; Stafleu & Cowan 15.921.
Gesneriaceae - Aeschynanthus boschianus. 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 39. 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.
Gesneriaceae - Aeschynanthus javanica. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1850, volume 6, plate 558. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 160 x 240 mm). Slight offset. 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.
Gesneriaceae - Aeschynanthus lobbiana. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1847, volume 3, plate 246. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 159 x 237 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.
Gesneriaceae - Aeschynanthus longiflora. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1847, volume 3, plate 288. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 158 x 237 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.
Gesneriaceae - Aeschynanthus mimetes. From: Curtis’s botanical magazine. Edited by Arthur William Hill. London, The Royal Horticultural Society & Bernard Quaritch, 1940, volume 162, plate 9595. Hand-coloured lithograph by Lilian Snelling (sheet 157 x 252 mm). Text enclosed. € 35 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. * Dunthorne 88; Nissen BBI 2350; Great flower books pp. 83-84; Hunt 689; Stafleu & Cowan 1290.
Gesneriaceae - Aeschynanthus miniata. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1847, volume 3, plate 236. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 160 x 235 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.
Gesneriaceae - Aeschynanthus pulchra - Aeschynanthus pulcher. From: Dictionnaire de botanique by Henri Ernest Baillon and others. Paris, Hachette, 1876, volume 1. Chromolithograph by Portail after Auguste Faguet (sheet 230 x 310 mm). Foxed. € 40 Auguste Faguet produced delicate botanical wood-engravings of great accuracy for the works of Henri Ernest Baillon. For the Dictionnaire de botanique, published from 1876-1892 in 34 fascicles, he also made 32 fine chromolithographed plates, which came out with each fascicle without additional text (2 contained no plate). * Nissen BBI 61 & p. 150; Stafleu & Cowan 253.
Gesneriaceae - Aeschynanthus pulchra - Aeschynanthus pulcher. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1847, volume 3, plate 197. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 160 x 235 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.
Gesneriaceae - Aeschynanthus pulchra - Aeschynanthus pulcher. 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, 1892, volume 18, plate 2. Chromolithograph (sheet 167 x 252 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. * B-P-H 781-22; not in Nissen BBI.
Gesneriaceae - Aeschynanthus speciosa. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1847, volume 3, plate 267. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 156 x 237 mm). Slightly browned. Text enclosed. € 60 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.
Gesneriaceae - Aeschynanthus speciosa. 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 163. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 168 x 257 mm). Text enclosed. € 55 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.
Gesneriaceae - Aeschynanthus tricolor. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe by Louis van Houtte and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1858 (1861), volume 13, plate 1384. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 165 x 253 mm). Text enclosed. € 60 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. * Great flower books p. 84; Nissen BBI 2254; Stafleu & Cowan 15.921.
Gesneriaceae - Aeschynanthus tricolor. From: l’Illustration horticole, journal spécial des serres et des jardins by Charles Lemaire (editor) and published by Ambroise Verschaffelt. Gand [Gent], F. et E. Gyselynck, 1858, volume 5, plate 169. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 170 x 255 mm). Text enclosed. € 55 One of the great Belgian horticultural periodicals, published over 43 years. From 1854-1868 Lemaire worked for Ambroise Verschaffelt, in which period he edited this journal. In 1869 the Verschaffelt Établissement was bought up by Jean Jules Linden and the editorship went to Éduard André. * Pritzel 5205; Nissen BBI 2343; Stafleu & Cowan II p. 834.
Gesneriaceae - Aeschynanthus tricolor. From: Revue de l’horticulture belge et étrangère by Frédéric Burvenich, Édouard Pynaert, Émile Rodigas, August van Geert & H.J. van Hulle (editors). Gand [Gent], Bureaux de la Revue, 1884, volume 10, plate 1. Chromolithograph (sheet 167 x 252 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.
Gesneriaceae - Agalmyla staminea. 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., 1848, volume 4, plate 206. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 170 x 257 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.
*Gesneriaceae - Agalmyla staminea.* From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1848, volume 4, plate 358. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 162 x 241 mm). Text enclosed. € 90 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. * Great flower books p. 84; Nissen BBI 2254; Stafleu & Cowan 15.921.
Gesneriaceae - Alloplectus capitatus. 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 270. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 169 x 257 mm). Paper slightly darkened. Text enclosed. € 60 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.
*Gesneriaceae - Alloplectus repens.* From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1848, volume 4, plate 392. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 158 x 242 mm). Text enclosed. € 65 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. * Great flower books p. 84; Nissen BBI 2254; Stafleu & Cowan 15.921.
Gesneriaceae - Besleria leucostoma - Hypocyrta leucostoma. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1847, volume 3, plate 257. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 160 x 237 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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