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Hamamelidaceae - Fothergilla gardeni - Fothergilla alnifolia
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 199.
Hand-coloured engraving after Turpin (sheet 120 x 213 mm).€ 70
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.
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Hamamelidaceae - Hamamelis japonica - Hamamelis arborea
From: The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all
its branches by William Robinson (editor).
London, 1891, January - June,
volume 39, plate 809. Chromolithograph by Guillaume Severeyns after painting by
H.G. Moon (sheet 218 x 293 mm with fold in lower margin, due to the larger
format). Illustrated text enclosed.€ 110
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). From 1880
Henry George Moon’s plant portraits dominated the pages of The Garden, a
popular horticultural publication. Renowned for his lifelike paintings of
orchids, Moon appealed to Robinson because of his ability to sketch flowers in a
graceful, naturalistic style. The subtle colourings of his paintings and simple
arrangement of flowers were very unlike the more stylised renderings that
appeared in competitors’ publications. The beautiful colour-plates were
lithographed and printed by the Belgian firm G. Severeyns and its successor J.L.
Goffart, notable for their craftmanship.
* Blunt & Stearn pp. 239-240; Nissen BBI 2264; B-P-H 391-10.
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Hamamelidaceae - Liquidambar orientalis
From:
Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen in naturgetreuen Abbildungen mit kurz erläuterndem
Texte. Atlas zur Pharmacopoea germanica, austriaca, belgica, danica, helvetica,
hungarica, rossica, suecica, neerlandica, british pharmacopoeia, zum Codex
medicamentarius, sowie zur Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America by
Hermann Adolph Koehler.
Gera-Utermhaus, Fr.Eugen Köhler, 1887, 1. edition,
volume 2, plate 101. Chromolithographed plate (sheet 219 x 299 mm). Text
enclosed.€ 50
Köhler’s magnum opus was published in parts from 1883-1898. The
first volume was finished in 1887, eight years after his death. The set of three
volumes with 283 colour-plates was a noteworthy achievement and included
European plants of medicinal interest. From the botanical standpoint the finest
and most useful series of illustrations of medicinal plants (Great flower
books). The beautiful colour-plates after illustrations by Walther Müller and
C.F. Schmidt, which were skillfully rendered in lithography by E. Günther.
* Nissen BBI 1085; Great flower books p. 62; Stafleu & Cowan 3806.
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Hamamelidaceae - Rhodoleia championi
From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others.
Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1850, volume 6, plate 561. Hand-coloured
lithograph (sheet 160 x 240 mm). Slightly browned. 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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