Sterculiaceae.

		Sterculiaceae · · Family of tropical trees and shrubs. The most famous products are chocolate and cocoa from Theobroma cacao, followed by cola nuts. Many species yield timber.
		Theobroma cacao. From: Dictionnaire de botanique by Henri Ernest Baillon and others

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Sterculiaceae - Commersonia platyphylla. From: Curtis’s botanical magazine; or flower garden displayed. London, 1816, volume 43, plate 1813. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 143 x 237 mm). Text enclosed. € 40 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. * Pritzel 2007; Dunthorne 88; Nissen BBI 2350; Great flower books pp. 83-84; Hunt 689; Henrey 472; Stafleu & Cowan 1290.
Sterculiaceae - Dombeya ameliae From: Floredes serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1850, volume 6, plate 605. Chromolithograph finished by hand (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.
Sterculiaceae - Dombeya mollis. From: Le jardin fleuriste, journal général des progrès et des intérêts horticoles et botaniques by Charles Lemaire (editor). Gand [Gent], F. et E. Gyselynck, 1852, volume 2, plate 134. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 158 x 245 mm with marginal repaired tear). Text enclosed. € 35 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.
Sterculiaceae - Dombeya viburniflora From: Floredes serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1851, volume 6, plate 626. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 162 x 238 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.
Sterculiaceae - Rulingia corylifolia From: Curtis’s botanical magazine; or flower garden displayed. London, 1832, volume 59, plate 3182. Hand-coloured engraving by William Jackson Hooker (sheet 144 x 230 mm). Text enclosed. € 45 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. * Pritzel 2007; Dunthorne 88; Nissen BBI 2350; Great flower books pp. 83-84; Hunt 689; Henrey 472; Stafleu & Cowan 1290.
Sterculiaceae - Sterculia balanghas 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, 1868, volume 18, plate 22. Chromolithograph (sheet 163 x 252 mm). Text by G. Delchevalerie enclosed. € 25 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.
Sterculiaceae - Sterculia nobilis - Sterculia balanghas From: The botanical register by Sydenham Teast Edwards and others. London, James Ridgeway, 1817, volume 3, plate 183. Hand-coloured engraving by White after Sydenham Edwards (sheet 283 x 223 mm with folds). Light stain in margin. Text enclosed. € 100 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.
Sterculiaceae - Theobroma cacao From: Darstellung und Beschreibung sämtlicher in der Pharmacopoea Borusica aufgeführten offizinellen Gewächse by Otto Carl Berg & Carl Friedrich Schmidt. Leipzig, Arthur Felix, [1858-1863], 1. edition, volume 4, plate 33e + 33 f. Hand-coloured lithograph and plain lithograph with lower corner lightly stained (sheet 215 x 278 mm). Text enclosed. € 110 Berg was professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University. Schmidt both drew and lithographed the plates. He was a prolific artist who illustrated many of the German botanical works of the 19th century. Jackson describes this work, a survey of plants used in the Prussian pharmacopoeia, as A thoroughly good book, probably the very best of its class; both in text and illustrations. * Pritzel 646; Jackson p. 203*; Nissen BBI 139; Stafleu & Cowan 10.873.
Sterculiaceae - Theobroma cacao. 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). € 70 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.
Sterculiaceae - Theobroma cacao. 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 157 I + 157 II. 2 chromolithographed plates (sheet 219 x 299 mm). Text enclosed. € 80 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.
Sterculiaceae - Theobroma cacao [?] - Theobroma quazuma. L’Orme d’Amérique From: Les dons merveilleux et diversement coloriés de la nature dans le règne végétal by Pierre Joseph Buchoz. Paris, 1779-1783, plate 133. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 280 x 440 mm; impression 205 x 325 mm; under passe-partout). € 140 This is one of the more important works of the copious Pierre Joseph Buc’hoz. It containts two hundred colored plates of varying merit, artistically and botanically; but, except for an occasional note at the foot of a plate, it contains no descriptions (Hunt). Some plates have their number been deleted in the press, due to their previous use in other works. Buchoz is also spelled as Buch’oz or Buc’hoz. * Pritzel 1327; Dunthorne 61; Blunt pp. 158-160; Nissen BBI 283; Great flower books p. 52; Hunt 656.
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