Severeyns, G. ; Burggraaff Lot n° 1246

[VAN GEEL, Pierre Corneille; DRAPIEZ, Pierre-Auguste Joseph] Flore de l'amateur. Choix des plantes les plus remarquables par leur élégance ou leur utilité, publiées dans le Sertum botanicum. Brussels Société Encyclographique [1847] 2 vols, folio; 89, 92 pl. (some offsetting, spotting and browning; fold of one plate almost torn off). Contemp. sheep, flat spines, a.e.g. (rebacked, rubbed sides). Brussels issue of this collection of 181 unnumb. contemp. hand-coloured lithographed plates out of the original edition (600 pl. in a complete set) of this splendid flower book by the Belgian naturalists P.C. Van Geel (1796-1838) and P.-A. Joseph Drapiez (1778-1856), bound together in two volumes, seemingly in no particular order. The pl. are lithogr. by Burggraaff after G. Severeyns. Each plate is followed by a short explanation giving the classification and characteristics of the plant genus and the specificities of the variety. Ref. Opac KBR. - Cp. Nissen (BBI) 2253, Landwehr (Dutch color plates) 62.