Live auction - Lot 717
[Botany - Periodical]
Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère [...].
€ 500 / 600
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Lot description
Ghent, Bureaux de la revue, 1875 [- 1884]
10 vol. 8vo; 220 pl., a few folding, protected by tissue guards (some foxing, larger at the end of vol. 8).
Cont. half sheep, marbled paper boards, spines on raised bands (wears).
First 10 years of this horticultural periodical founded in 1875 and published until 1905. Illustrated with 128 beautiful chromolithographic plates by Pannemaker, representing mostly plants and flowers (also exotic), 92 pl. in black (of which 1 photogr. reprod.) and several engr. in text or full-pages. Ref. Platiau, R. L'orchidée à Mariemont pp. 37 & 104. - Not Nissen, Pritzel.