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SERTUM BOTANICUM - VAN GEEL- DRAPIEZ. Collection...

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SERTUM BOTANICUM - VAN GEEL- DRAPIEZ. Collection of plants remarkable for their usefulness, elegance, brilliance, or novelty. By a society of botanists. Bruxelles, Etablissement encyclographique,1828-1832, 5 vol. (of 6) in-fol. half-rel. bas. fawn (very worn binding, with spines missing in condition). Complete with 600 lithographed and colored plates and one black plate, accompanied by a text for each plate. Incomplete with volume 6, which is the alphabetical list of Latin names, French names and plant classification. Many loose plates. Titles incomplete except for vol. 4. Attached is a patent from the state practical school of horticulture and agriculture in Vilvoorde in Magnan's name.