Journal d'horticulture pratique de la Belgique, revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère [...] sous la direction de H. Galeotti directeur du jardin botanique de Bruxelles. Première [- Cinquième] année.

5 vol., large 8vo (some minor spotting).

Contemp. green quarter leather, gilt spines with 5 raised bands, red leather title labels, marbled endpapers. Good set.

"Tête de collection", i.e. the first five years of the second series of this botanical periodical founded in 1844. Beautifully illustrated with 117 (24, 26, 23, 23, 21) hand-coloured lithogr. plates (3 uncol., a few folding), some heightened with Arabic gum, depicting flowers and fruit, including the folding lithogr. plate titled "Exposition de la Société royale d'horticulture de Namur" by F. Rops.
Ref. Not in Opac KBR.
Prov. "Bibliothèque Jean Ballion, Gand" (collector's ticket and stamp).