Beautiful work on orchids
Avslutad
2012-10-08
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| Utropspris | 6 000 SEK |
LINDEN, J. J., and others (56). L´illustration horticole. Revue mensuelle des serres et des jardins... 3me série and 4me série. Gand (Ghent) 1870-81. Not complete.
4to. 154 partly double page chromolithograph plates (mostly orchids, some fruits, garden plans, and design for garden buildings), wood-engravings. A few plates damaged from tissue-papers, some spotting.
Original printed wrappers, partly damaged. Some duplicates. 56 issues.
Nissen, BBI:2343.
L´Illustration horticole was a monthly periodical and is by many considered to be one of the finest botanical periodicals of the second half of the 19th century. Jean Jules Linden (1817-98), the editor, was also a orchid grower and collector.
Not complete.
