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Heliconiaceae -
Heliconia angustifolia
From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others.
Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1849. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 160 x 240 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.
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Heliconiaceae - Heliconia angustifolia
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 285. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 169 x 256 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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Heliconiaceae - Heliconia bihai
From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others.
Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1857, volume 12, plate 1215. Hand-coloured lithograph (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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Heliconiaceae - Heliconia bihai
From: The botanical register by Sydenham Teast Edwards and others.
London, James Ridgeway, 1819, volume 5, plate 374. Hand-coloured engraving by Smith after M. Hart (sheet
300 x 227 mm with fold). Text enclosed.€ 115
Sydenham Teast Edwards was a botanical artist who worked for 27 years for Curtis’s Botanical magazine.
In 1815 he started the rival The botanical register; consisting of coloured
figures of exotic plants, cultivated in British gardens; with their history and
mode of treatment. The text for the first 14 years is by John Bellenden Ker
and the volumes 15-33 by John Lindley as Edward’s botanical register. The
principal illustrators were Edwards himself, M. Hart and Miss Drake and the
engravers Sansom, Smith, S. Watts, White and G. Barclay.
* Pritzel 2621; Dunthorne 108; Nissen BBI 2379; Great flower books p. 84; Stafleu & Cowan 1625; Johnston 784.
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