Annales Société royale d'agriculture et de botanique de Gand: Journal d'horticulture et des sciences accessoires.

5 vol., 8vo.

Half green shagreen, cloth over covers, gilt orn. spines on 4 raised bands (some min. rubbing), marbled endpapers. Nice set.

Publication compiled by Ghent botanist and horticulturist Charles Morren (1807-1858) illustrated with 5 identical engr. titles by Ch. Onghena and 291 lithogr. plates showing nice flowers and fruits (lacking pl. 133 (?), probably never bound with; Nissen mentions 291 pl.), heightened or chromolithogr. by G. Severeyns ou Alex. Lagarde of which 10 folding and 10 pl. in bl/w of which 2 folding; some woodcuts in text. Morren was director of the Jardin botanique de l'Université de Liège and was the first to discover a method for artificial pollination, which made it possible to cultivate vanilla in the French colonies (Wikipedia).
Ref. Nissen 2212. - Opac KBR. - BnF. - COPAC. - Biodiversity Heritage Library shows two times the same pl. for n. 132 and 133. - Not in Pritzel.
Joined: Id. - Index bibliographique de l'Hortus belgicus. Catalogue méthodique des plantes ornementales qui ont été décrites, figurées ou introduites en Belgique de 1830 à 1880. Fédération des Sociétés d'horticulture de Belgique, 1887. 4to: xxiv-617 pp. (spotting and browning). Contemp. black cloth (sl. used). (6 vol.)