Orchidaceae.

		Orchidaceae O · Largest family of flowering plants. Growing in a wide variety of habitats, but their greatest diversity is in the tropical rain forest. Their beauty brought them also into cultivation.
		*Oncidium cucullatum* x nubigenum. From: La Belgique horticole ... by Charles François Antoine and by Charles Jacques Édouard Morren.

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Orchidaceae - Odontoglossum cervantesii. From: The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches by William Robinson (editor). London, 1887, July - December, volume 32, plate 617. Chromolithograph by G. Severeyns after painting by H.G. Moon (sheet 220 x 283 mm). 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.
Orchidaceae - Odontoglossum cirrhosum. From: l’Illustration horticole. Revue mensuelle des serres et des jardins by Éduard André (editor) and published by Jean Jules Linden. Gand [Gent], 1878, volume 25, plate 301. Chromolithograph by P. de Pannemaker finished by hand (sheet 175 x 267 mm). Text enclosed. € 35 One of the great Belgian horticultural periodicals, published over 43 years. From 1854-1868 edited by Charles Lemaire and published by Ambroise Verschaffelt. In 1869 the Verschaffelt Établissement was bought up by Jean Jules Linden and the editorship went to Éduard André and ended in 1896. * Nissen BBI 2343; Stafleu & Cowan II p. 834 + III p. 43.
Orchidaceae - Odontoglossum citrosmum. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1851, volume 6, plate 633. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 160 x 238 mm). Text enclosed. € 70 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.
Orchidaceae - Odontoglossum citrosmum. 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, 1895, volume 21, plate 23. Chromolithograph (sheet 158 x 245 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.
Orchidaceae - Odontoglossum crispum François Masereel. 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, 1895, volume 21, plate 1. Chromolithograph (sheet 247 x 160 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. * B-P-H 781-22; not in Nissen BBI.
Orchidaceae - Odontoglossum x elegans. From: The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches by William Robinson (editor). London, 1884, July - December, volume 26, plate 459. Chromolithograph (sheet 217 x 280 mm). Text enclosed. € 90 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 firms G. Severeyns and J.L. Goffart, notable for their craftmanship. * Blunt & Stearn pp. 239-240; Nissen BBI 2264; B-P-H 391-10.
*Orchidaceae - Odontoglossum grande* Excelsior.** 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, 1891, volume 17, plate 5. Chromolithograph (sheet 164 x 250 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.
Orchidaceae - Odontoglossum insleayi x leopardinum. 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 6. 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.
Orchidaceae - Odontoglossum kegeljani. From: La Belgique horticole. Annales de botanique et d’horticulture by Charles Jacques Édouard Morren. Liège [Luik], La Direction Générale, 1877, volume 27, plate 10. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 147 x 233 mm). Text enclosed. € 55 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 III pp. 592-593.
Orchidaceae - Odontoglossum membranaceum. 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 10. Hand-coloured lithograph by Alex. Lagarde (sheet 162 x 247 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. * Great flower books p. 84; Nissen BBI 2212 .
Orchidaceae - Odontoglossum membranaceum. 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 10. Hand-coloured lithograph by Alex. Lagarde (sheet 167 x 257 mm). Marginally waterstained. Text enclosed. € 35 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. * Great flower books p. 84; Nissen BBI 2212.
Orchidaceae - Odontoglossum naevium. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1850, volume 6, plate 594. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 163 x 238 mm). Text enclosed. € 70 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.
Orchidaceae - Odontoglossum nobile - Odontoglossum pescatorei. From: The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches by William Robinson (editor). London, 1884, July - December, volume 26, plate 452. Chromolithograph (sheet 280 x 217 mm). Text 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). 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 firms G. Severeyns and J.L. Goffart, notable for their craftmanship. * Blunt & Stearn pp. 239-240; Nissen BBI 2264; B-P-H 391-10.
Orchidaceae - Odontoglossum nobile - Odontoglossum pescatorei. From: Le jardin fleuriste, journal général des progrès et des intérêts horticoles et botaniques by Charles Lemaire (editor). Gand [Gent], F. et E. Gyselynck, 1854, volume 4, plate 331. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 161 x 245 mm). Text enclosed. € 50 Lemaire (1800-1871), was a French botanist and specialist on Cactaceae. He worked in Belgium as editor of several important botanical publications, such as the Flore des serres and l'Illustration horticole. Le jardin fleuriste was published from 1851 to 1854 in 4 volumes and is beautifully illustrated, sometimes with large folding plates, which have double numbers. It has a definite preference for the exotic plants, suitable only for the hot-house in northern Europe. In the first half of the 19th century colour-printing from stone dominated the scene of botanical illustration and the Belgian lithographers reached the ultimate in craftmanship, in a period that Belgium was one of the main horticultural centres in Europe. * Pritzel 10.776; Nissen BBI 2338; Great flower books p. 85; Stafleu & Cowan 4376.
Orchidaceae - Odontoglossum oerstedii. From: The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches by William Robinson (editor). London, 1884, July - December, volume 26, plate 454. Chromolithograph (sheet 280 x 217 mm). Text enclosed. € 85 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 firms G. Severeyns and J.L. Goffart, notable for their craftmanship. * Blunt & Stearn pp. 239-240; Nissen BBI 2264; B-P-H 391-10.
Orchidaceae - Odontoglossum rossii. 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 13. Chromolithograph (sheet 168 x 253 mm). Text enclosed. € 45 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.
Orchidaceae - Odontoglossum triumphans. 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 11. Chromolithograph (sheet 252 x 167 mm with marginal inscription). Text enclosed. € 25 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.
Orchidaceae - Odontoglossum wattianum. From: The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches by William Robinson (editor). London, 1890, January - June, volume 37, plate 751. Chromolithograph by Guillaume Severeyns after painting by H.G. Moon (sheet 218 x 282 mm). 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.
Orchidaceae - Oncidium barbatum. 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, 1887, volume 13, plate 22. Chromolithograph (sheet 253 x 167 mm). Text enclosed. € 30 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.
Orchidaceae - Oncidium batemannianum - Oncidium gallopavinum. 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 1. Hand-coloured lithograph by Alex. Lagarde (sheet 166 x 257 mm). Partly waterstained. Text enclosed. € 30 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. * Great flower books p. 84; Nissen BBI 2212.
Orchidaceae - Oncidium cucullatum x nubigenum. 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, 1869, volume 19, plate 19. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 158 x 250 mm). Light stain in lower corner. Text enclosed. € 40 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.
Orchidaceae - Oncidium geertianum. 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 179. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 170 x 257 mm). Text enclosed. € 65 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. * Great flower books p. 84; Nissen BBI 2212.
Orchidaceae - Oncidium gravesianum. 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, 1895, volume 21, plate 7. Chromolithograph (sheet 247 x 158 mm). Text enclosed. € 30 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.
Orchidaceae - Oncidium harrisonianum. 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 22. Chromolithograph (sheet 252 x 166 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.
Orchidaceae - Oncidium hastatum - Odontoglossum phyllochilum. 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 271. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 170 x 257 mm). Text enclosed. € 65 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.
Orchidaceae - Oncidium jonesianum. From: Revue de l’horticulture belge et étrangère by Frédéric Burvenich, Oswald de Kerchove de Denterchem, Édouard Pynaert, Émile Rodigas, Émile Rodigas, August van Geert & Hubert J. van Hulle (editors). Gand [Gent], Bureau de la Revue, 1889, volume 15, plate 1. Chromolithograph (sheet 172 x 260 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.
Orchidaceae - Oncidium lanceanum. From: The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches by William Robinson (editor). London, 1886, January - June, volume 29, plate 539. Chromolithograph (sheet 217 x 280 mm). Text 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). 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.
Orchidaceae - Oncidium leucochilum - Cyrtochilum leucochilum. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1849, volume 5, plate 522. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 160 x 239 mm). Slight browning and offset. 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.
Orchidaceae - Oncidium luridum - Oncidium cosymbephorum. 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 275. 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. * Great flower books p. 84; Nissen BBI 2212.
Orchidaceae - Oncidium massangei. From: La Belgique horticole. Annales de botanique et d’horticulture by Charles Jacques Édouard Morren. Liège [Luik], La Direction Générale, 1877, volume 27, plate 6-7. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 233 x 325 mm with folds). Text enclosed. € 90 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 III pp. 592-593.
Orchidaceae - Oncidium papilio. From: l’Horticulteur universel, journal général des jardiniers et amateurs by Charles Lemaire (editor). Paris, H. Cousin, 1839, volume 1, plate 20. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 157 x 240 mm). Browned. Text missing. € 35 * Pritzel 5201; Stafleu & Cowan 4374.
Orchidaceae - Oncidium praetextum. From: La Belgique horticole. Annales de botanique et d’horticulture by Charles Jacques Édouard Morren. Liège [Luik], La Direction Générale, 1877, volume 27, plate 20-21. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 233 x 333 mm with folds). Text enclosed. € 120 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 III pp. 592-593.
Orchidaceae - Oncidium retemeyerianum. 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, 1872, volume 22, plate 15. Chromolithograph by P. de Pannemaeker finished by hand (sheet 160 x 247 mm). Text enclosed. € 75 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.
Orchidaceae - Oncidium varicosum x rogersi. From: The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches by William Robinson (editor). London, 1899, January - July, volume 55, plate 1226. Chromolithograph by J.L. Goffart after painting by H.G. Moon (sheet 223 x 285 mm). 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.
Orchidaceae - Ophrys apifera + Ophrys muscifera - Ophrys myodes. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1854, volume 9, plate 882. Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant finished by hand (sheet 159 x 243 mm). Text enclosed. € 70 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.
Orchidaceae - Ophrys spiralis. From: Flora batava by Jan Kops and others. Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp, 1807, volume 2, plate 130. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 225 x 278 mm). Text enclosed. € 200 The Flora batava, a monumental work forming a beautifully illustrated survey of all indigenous plants in the Netherlands. It was started in 1800 by Jan Kops, a Dutch agronomist and professor of botany at Utrecht. The first 10 volumes constitute all that was prepared and issued under his supervision. When finished at last in 1934, Willem Jan Lütjeharms was the editor for volume 28, in which he concludes that this work has ended now and that publication took longer than any comparable foreign flora: De Flora Batava heeft langer geleefd dan een der met dit werk vergelijkbare buitenlandsche plaatwerken. The long publication period reflects the change in the technique of its illustrations. Initially copper-engravings were used, followed by lithographs, all coloured by hand, but from volume 25 colour-printing was gradually introduced. Also several artists were involved, but the plates are not signed, nor much information is given about them. Most plates in the first 3 volumes were illustrated by Georg Jacob Johann van Os. He was born in 1782 in The Hague and settled in Paris in 1826, where he worked for the Sèvres porcelain factory and was a painter of flower and fruit pieces, still lifes, etc. These early, finely engraved plates are exquisitely coloured by hand. Each plate is accompanied by a text in Dutch and French. The first publisher, J.C. Sepp en Zoon, was renowned for its scientific colour-plate books. The work was issued in 8vo and 4to. This plate is in the most desirable 4to format. * Pritzel 4822; Jackson p. 324; Great flower books p. 63; Nissen BBI 2247; Landwehr 60; Stafleu & Cowan 3874; Sam Segal: Flowers and nature pp. 250-251 (Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os); Johnston 663; A hundred highlights from the koninklijke Bibliotheek 70.
Orchidaceae - Orchis hircina - Aceras hircina. 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, 1871, volume 21, plate 10. Chromolithograph (sheet 160 x 250 mm). Text enclosed. € 45 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.
Orchidaceae - Orchis militaris + Habenaria bifolia - Platanthera bifolia. 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 1, plates 61 (2x). Two chromolithographed plates (sheet 220 x 298 mm). Slightly foxed. Text enclosed. € 125 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.
Orchidaceae - Orchis morio. From: English botany; or, coloured figures of British plants by James Edward Smith. London, R. Taylor, J. Sowerby, etc., 1809, volume 29, plate 2059. Hand-coloured engraving by James Sowerby (sheet 145 x 237 mm; impression 85 x 182 mm). Text enclosed. € 70 One of the most celebrated of all British floras is Sowerby’s English botany. This periodical publication, issued in 267 numbers, and published in thirty-six volumes between 1790 and 1814, contains 2,592 beautifully coloured illustrations of plants most of which are drawn and engraved by James Sowerby. The plates are accompanied by descriptive letterpress written by the eminent botanist James Edward Smith, … (Henrey II p. 141). James Sowerby, who was the first of several members of this family who became noted as authors and illustrators of books on natural history, lived from 1757-1822. He studied painting at the Royal Academy, and soon turned to botanical illustration. His first work was for William Curtis’s Flora Londinensis and his Botanical magazine. * Pritzel 8789; Dunthorne 291; Blunt & Stearn pp. 190-192; Great flower books p. 76; Hunt 717; Nissen BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Stafleu & Cowan 12.221.
Orchidaceae - Orchis pyramidalis. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1855, volume 10, plate 1029. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 160 x 240 mm). Text enclosed. € 70 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.
Orchidaceae - Orchis simia - Orchis tephrosanthos. From: British phaenogamous botany; or, figures and descriptions of the genera of British flowering plants by William Baxter. Oxford, the author, J.H. Parker; Whittaker, Treacher, 1837, volume 3, plate 213. Hand-coloured engraving by Isaac Russell (sheet 133 x 218 mm). Text enclosed. € 45 For his work on the British flora, an attractive and, in the main, well-illustrated book, he employed the services of two local artists - Isaac Russell (an Oxford glass painter) and C. Matthews. Though these men were not trained scientists, they acquired by degrees a good working knowledge of botany; many of the plates - which were coloured by Baxter’s daughters and daughter-in-law - are superior to those in Sowerby (Blunt, p. 213). * Pritzel 524; Blunt p. 213; Great flower books p. 49; Nissen BBI 107; Stafleu & Cowan 374.
Orchidaceae - Ornithocephalus chloroleucus. From: Dictionnaire de botanique by Henri Ernest Baillon and others. Paris, Hachette, 1891, volume 3. Chromolithograph by Portail after Auguste Faguet (sheet 230 x 310 mm). € 50 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.
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