Live auction - Lot 1145
[Botany - Periodical]
Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère [...].
Hammer price: €
800
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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).
Contemp. half sheep, marbled paper boards, spines with raised bands (traces of use).
First 10 years of this horticultural periodical founded in 1875 and published until 1905. Illustrated with 128 beautiful chromolithographic plates by P. De Pannemaecker, representing mostly plants and flowers (also exotic), 92 b/w pl. (of which 1 photogr. reprod.) and several engr. in-text or full-pages.
Ref. Platiau, R. - L'orchidée à Mariemont, pp. 37 & 104. - Not in Nissen (BBI), Pritzel.