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[GEEL, PIERRE CORNEILLE VAN and OTHERS]. Encyclographie du Règne végétal. Sertun Botanicum, collection de plantes remarquables par leur utilité, leur élégance, leur éclat ou leur nouveauté, consistant de six cents planches soigneusement lithographiées et coloriées...par une société de botanistes. Brussels: Etablissement Encyclographique 1828-1832.
4 vols. in 8, folio, 357 x 267 mm., contemporary half calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels, some joits cracked and extremities worn, text offset on plates in vol. 1, some foxing throughout, one plate creased.
FIRST EDITION. 594 hand-colored lithographed plates and one uncolored plate, after the drawings of G. Severeyns. Mostly of ornamental flowering plants recently introduced into cultivation. The book was reissued as Flore des serres et des jardins, Paris 1834.
Dunthorne 121 (600 plates); Great Flower Books, p. 85 (600 colored and 1 uncolored plate); Nissen BBI 2386 (594 plates); Pritzel 10566 (600 colored plates).
Provenance: Robert de Belder (sale, 27 April 1987, lot 129, incorrect plate count noting 600 plates). (8)
4 vols. in 8, folio, 357 x 267 mm., contemporary half calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels, some joits cracked and extremities worn, text offset on plates in vol. 1, some foxing throughout, one plate creased.
FIRST EDITION. 594 hand-colored lithographed plates and one uncolored plate, after the drawings of G. Severeyns. Mostly of ornamental flowering plants recently introduced into cultivation. The book was reissued as Flore des serres et des jardins, Paris 1834.
Dunthorne 121 (600 plates); Great Flower Books, p. 85 (600 colored and 1 uncolored plate); Nissen BBI 2386 (594 plates); Pritzel 10566 (600 colored plates).
Provenance: Robert de Belder (sale, 27 April 1987, lot 129, incorrect plate count noting 600 plates). (8)