Live auction - Lot 718
[Botany - Periodical]
Revue horticole. Journal d'horticulture pratique fondé en 1829 par les auteurs du Bon jardinier [...].
€ 500 / 600
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Lot description
Paris, Librairie argricole de La Maison rustique, 1863, 1865, 1868, 1872, 1908 [- 1913]
10 vols, 8vo; 288 pls (text n.c., +/- important foxing, some browned plates in 1863, some ll. detached or with tear, some tissue guards stuck on plates).
Contemp. three-quarter burgundy shagreen, burgundy shagreen-like cloth, spines with raised bands (mostly rubbed or with small defects).
Complete with 288 coloured plates (generally 24/vol) depicting fruits (pears, cherries, strawberries, figs, melons...) or flowers. Horticultural magazine, printed in 2 cols richly illustrated with b/w engr. (tools, insects, vegetables...). Joined: SCHEIDWEILER [- GALEOTTI] (dir.).- Journal d'horticulture pratique ou Guide des amateurs et jardiniers Brux., Parent, 1844 [- 1846], 1850-/1851, 1856/1857, 5 vols, 12mo, publ.'s cloth. ill. with coloured flower plates (n.c.). (Tog. 2 works in 15 vol.)