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Assen, Stoomdrukkerij Floralia, 1910-1917, volume 1-8 (bound in 4 volumes), pp. [i], 364, (8), 56; [i], 322, (10), 55; [i], 388, (12), 55; [i], 460, (10); [i], 276, (10), 64; [i], 305, (11); [i], 308, (8), 38; [i], 112, (4); a few text-illustrations; 8vo, half olive buckram with marbled boards, gilt-lettered and ruled spines. Fine set. Note: A complete run of a rare journal (including the lists of members) of the Dutch Horticultural Society, nowadays called Koninklijke Maatschappij Tuinbouw en Plantkunde ... (more information)

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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 241. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 165 x 246 mm). Text enclosed. Note: 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 b... (more information)

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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 241. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 168 x 258 mm). Text enclosed. Note: 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 b... (more information)

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From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe by Charles Lemaire and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1849, volume 5, plate 459. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 163 x 239 mm). Text enclosed. Note: 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. Al... (more information)

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Etnofarmacologie van het Caribisch gebied. Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 2003, pp. 188, text-illustrations (partly in colour), large 8vo, colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. ... (more information)

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From: La flore et la pomone françaises, ou histoire et figures en couleur, des fleurs et des fruits de France ou naturalisés sur le sol français by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire. Paris, the author, 1832, volume 5, plate 450. Unsigned stipple-engraving in colour by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire finished by hand (uncut and unbound sheet 175 x 267). Text enclosed in photocopy. Note: Very rare work, which was published in parts from 1828-1833 in 6 volumes by the French botanist and artis... (more information)

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From: La flore et la pomone françaises, ou histoire et figures en couleur, des fleurs et des fruits de France ou naturalisés sur le sol français by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire. Paris, the author, 1832, volume 5, plate 453. Unsigned stipple-engraving in colour by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire finished by hand (uncut and unbound sheet 175 x 267). Text enclosed in photocopy. Note: Very rare work, which was published in parts from 1828-1833 in 6 volumes by the French botanist and artis... (more information)

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From: Flora and sylva. A monthly review for lovers of garden, woodland, tree or flower; new and rare plants, trees, shrubs, and fruits; the garden beautiful, home woods, and home landscape by William Robinson (editor). London, the editor, 1904, volume 2, no. 19. Chromolithograph after painting by H.G. Moon (sheet 236 x 320 mm). Slightly foxed. Finely illustrated uncut text of half issue enclosed. Note: "All gardeners owe an infinite debt of gratitude to William Robinson - founder of The Garden (1871-1... (more information)

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From: La flore et la pomone françaises, ou histoire et figures en couleur, des fleurs et des fruits de France ou naturalisés sur le sol français by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire. Paris, the author, 1832, volume 5, plate 452. Unsigned stipple-engraving in colour by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire finished by hand (uncut and unbound sheet 175 x 267). Text enclosed in photocopy. Note: Very rare work, which was published in parts from 1828-1833 in 6 volumes by the French botanist and artis... (more information)

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From: Curtis's botanical magazine; or flower garden displayed. London, 1809, volume 30, plate 1206. Hand-coloured engraving by Francis Sansom after Sydenham Teast Edwards (sheet 230 x 230 mm with fold). Text missing. Note: "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 colour... (more information)

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From: Hortus elthamensis seu plantarum rariorum quas in horto suo Elthami in Cantio coluit vir ornatissimus et praestantissimus Jacobus Sherard ... by Johann Jacob Dillenius. London, the author, 1732. Engraving by the author (uncut, unpressed sheet 300 x 485 mm; impression 223 x 355 mm). Text enclosed. Note: "James Sherard (1666-1738), botanist and apothecary, had gardens famous for rare plants at Eltham, south of Greenwich. Dillenius made the gardens memorable through excellent illustrations, drawn a... (more information)

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From: La flore et la pomone françaises, ou histoire et figures en couleur, des fleurs et des fruits de France ou naturalisés sur le sol français by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire. Paris, the author, 1832, volume 5, plate 451. Unsigned stipple-engraving in colour by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire finished by hand (uncut and unbound sheet 175 x 267). Text enclosed in photocopy. Note: Very rare work, which was published in parts from 1828-1833 in 6 volumes by the French botanist and artis... (more information)

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From: La flore et la pomone françaises, ou histoire et figures en couleur, des fleurs et des fruits de France ou naturalisés sur le sol français by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire. Paris, the author, 1832, volume 5, plate 454. Unsigned stipple-engraving in colour by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire finished by hand (uncut and unbound sheet 175 x 267). Text enclosed in photocopy. Note: Very rare work, which was published in parts from 1828-1833 in 6 volumes by the French botanist and artis... (more information)

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From: Flora and sylva. A monthly review for lovers of garden, woodland, tree or flower; new and rare plants, trees, shrubs, and fruits; the garden beautiful, home woods, and home landscape by William Robinson (editor). London, the editor, 1904, volume 2, no. 12. Chromolithograph after painting by H.G. Moon (sheet 235 x 320 mm). Finely illustrated uncut text of half issue enclosed. Note: "All gardeners owe an infinite debt of gratitude to William Robinson - founder of The Garden (1871-1927) and Flora a... (more information)

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From: La flore et la pomone françaises, ou histoire et figures en couleur, des fleurs et des fruits de France ou naturalisés sur le sol français by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire. Paris, the author, 1832, volume 5, plate 449. Unsigned stipple-engraving in colour by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire finished by hand (uncut and unbound sheet 175 x 267). Text enclosed. Note: Very rare work, which was published in parts from 1828-1833 in 6 volumes by the French botanist and artist Jaume Saint... (more information)

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From: Flora. Afbeeldingen en beschrijvingen van boomen, heesters, éénjarige planten, enz., voorkomende in de Nederlandsche tuinen by Heinrich Witte. Groningen, J.B. Wolters, (1868), plate 15. Chromolithograph by G. Severeyns after Abraham Jacobus Wendel (sheet 224 x 302 mm). Text enclosed. Note: Heinrich Witte, a Dutch gardener, was assistant curator and head-curator at the Leiden botanical garden from 1855-1898. The decorative colour-plates depict the most attractive Dutch garden plants, shr... (more information)

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From: Nederlandsche flora en pomona beschreven en uitgegeven door het bestuur der Pomologische Vereeniging te Boskoop, by K.J.W. Ottolander, A. Koster & C. de Vos (editors). Groningen, J.B. Wolters, [1875-] 1876-1879, plate 43. Chromolithograph (sheet 233 x 300 mm). Text enclosed. Note: The beautiful colour-plates were lithographed in Belgium by G. Severyns after paintings by Abraham Jacobus Wendel. They depict flowers and fruit then growing in The Netherlands. Publication started in 1875 on the initia... (more information)

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From: Herbier de la flore française by Louis Antoine Cusin & Edmonde Ansberque. Procédé de reproduction dit phytoxygraphique. Publié sous le patronage du Service du Parc et des Jardins de la ville de Lyon. Lyon, 1876. Nature-printing with hand-coloured flower detail (sheet ca. 260 x 375 mm). Marginally partly slightly stained. Without text as issued. Note: The plates are reproductions of actual specimens and give the appearance of the plants very accurately. The flower detai... (more information)

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With a foreword by Edgar Anderson. Waltham, Chronica Botanica, 1950, pp. xvi, 149-191, frontispiece and 25 text-illustrations, large 8vo, gilt-lettered and illustrated cloth. Specially bound offprint. ... (more information)

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From: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes by Denis Dodart & Nicolas Robert. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1676. Engraving by Abraham Bosse after Denis Robert (sheet 345 x 490 mm; impression 300 x 405 mm; under passe-partout). Text missing. Note: "First edition of one of the great books in the history of botanical illustration, where all the technical resources of engraving were utilized in presenting the plants as accurately as possible" (Hunt). "This volume, a large ... (more information)

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