Ventes live - Lot 1246
[Botany]
Flore de l'amateur. Choix des plantes les plus remarquables par leur élégance ou leur utilité, publiées dans le Sertum botanicum.
Brussels, Société Encyclographique, [1847]
€ 1.500 / 2.000
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Description du lot
2 vol., folio; 89, 92 pl. (some offsetting, spotting and browning; fold of one plate almost torn off).
Contemp. sheep, flat spines, a.e.g. (rebacked, rubbed sides).
Brussels issue of this collection of 181 unnumb. contemp. hand-coloured lithographed plates out of the original edition (600 pl. in a complete set) of this splendid flower book by the Belgian naturalists P.C. Van Geel (1796-1838) and P.-A. Joseph Drapiez (1778-1856), bound together in two volumes, seemingly in no particular order. The pl. are lithogr. by Burggraaff after G. Severeyns. Each plate is followed by a short explanation giving the classification and characteristics of the plant genus and the specificities of the variety.
Ref. Opac KBR. - Cp. Nissen (BBI) 2253, Landwehr (Dutch colour plates) 62.