ABBE LAURENT BERLESE (ACTIVE 19TH CENTURY) AFTER JOHANN J. JUNGER (ACTIVE LATE 18TH CENTURY)

Iconographie du Genre Camellia ou Description et Figures Des Camellia Les Plus Beaux et Les Plus Rares Peints D'Apres Nature: Eight Plates

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ABBE LAURENT BERLESE (ACTIVE 19TH CENTURY) AFTER JOHANN J. JUNGER (ACTIVE LATE 18TH CENTURY)
Iconographie du Genre Camellia ou Description et Figures Des Camellia Les Plus Beaux et Les Plus Rares Peints D'Apres Nature: Eight Plates
eight stipple engravings in colors, 1839-43, with additional hand-coloring, on wove papers, published by N. Rémond, Paris, with margins, the palest light- staining on several plates, Plates 115; 134; 173; 177 and 219 with pale scattered foxing and staining, otherwise apparently in very good condition, in antiqued faux-gilded frames and white moire silk mounts, not examined out of the frames
all P. approx. 11½ x 8½ in. (292 x 215 mm.) (8)

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Including:
Plate 93: Camellia Gussonia; Plate 115: Camellia Spiraliter imbricata; Plate 134: Camellia Alba plena; Plate 173: Camellia Maria Dorothea; Plate 177: Camellia Hoylockii; Plate 179: Camellia Néréiflora; Plate 199: Camellia Myrthyfolia; Plate 219: Camellia Innocenza

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