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VAN GEEL, Pierre Corneille, DRAPIEZ, Pierre-Auguste Joseph - Sertum botanicum. Collection de plantes remarquables par leur utilité, leur élégance, leur éclat ou leur nouveauté, consistant en six cents planches soigneusement lithographiées et coloriées, accompagnées d'un texte particulier pour chaque plante (...). Brussels, Etablissement encyclographique, 1828-32, 4 vol., sm. folio (esp. on outer margins strong water- & mildew stains on 1st and last ff. of vol. I and III, those in vol. I restored; spotting throughout with some pl. and ff. more affected), cont. red calf (rebacked, corners, edges, joints, head and tails visibly restored), gilt orn. flat spines with gilt garlands on heads and tails (sl. rubbed). Good copy.
Original edition of this splendid flower book by the Belgian naturalists Pierre Corneille Van Geel (1796-1838) and Pierre-Auguste Joseph Drapiez (1778-1856). Beautifully illustrated with 600 botanical unnumb. cont. hand-coloured lithographed plates (except for one plate b/w) after G. Severeyns and lithogr. by Burggraaff. With an introduction (4 pp.) and an alphabetical list of the plant names in Latin and French (10 pp.) in the 1st vol. Each plate is followed by a short explanation giving the classification and characteristics of the plant genus and the specificities of the variety. Most of the specimens illustrated here were ornamental flowering plants recently introduced into Europe for cultivation. Ref. Nissen BBI 2386 (calls for 594 pl.). Pritzel 566. Brunet V:1074.