From: l’Illustration horticole, journal spécial des serres et des jardins by Charles Lemaire (editor) and published by Ambroise Verschaffelt.
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Syagrus cocoides From: l’Illustration horticole, journal spécial des serres et des jardins by Charles Lemaire (editor) and published by Ambroise Verschaffelt. |
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| Palmae - Calamus rotang From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1793, 1. edition, volume 3, plate 174. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 172 x 227 mm). Text enclosed. € 70
William Woodville is noted for his early advocacy of the theory of vaccination and for
these excellent volumes on Medical Botany (Hunt). This work contains
systematic and general descriptions of all the plants in the catalogues of the
materia medica published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and
Edinburgh, and is illustrated with excellent plates drawn and engraved by James
Sowerby (Henrey).* Pritzel 10.398; Dunthorne 334; Great flower books p. 81; Hunt 716; Nissen BBI 2183; Henrey 1521 + I p. 30. |
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| Palmae - Daemonorops hystrix - Daemonorops hirsutus From: Rumphia, sive commentationes botanicae imprimis de plantis Indiae orientalis, … by Carl Ludwig Blume. Leiden, etc., 1835-1848, volume 2, plate 135. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 262 x 425 mm). Text missing. € 100
Magnificent plates of the flora of the East Indies. The title refers to Georg
Eberhard Rumpf (Rumphius). Blume saw himself as continuing Rumpf’s pioneering
work and indeed Blume was given the cognomen ‘Rumphius’ as his spiritual
disciple.* Great flower books p. 50; Nissen BBI 178; Stafleu & Cowan 566. |
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| Palmae - Syagrus cocoides 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. Chromolithograph and plain lithograph (sheet 170 x 255 mm). Text enclosed (partly in photocopy). € 45
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. |
 
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