[Botany] Nouvelle Iconographie des Camellias

contenant les figures et la description des plus rares, des plus nouvelles et des plus belles variétés de ce genre. Ghent, A.J. Verschaffelt], 1856-1860. 4to, half-shagreen with cased boards, marbled endpapers. 237 (of 240) plates in colour lithography by G. Severyns and L. Stroobant with descriptive text.

Plain binding, corners worn, without title, several plates trimmed short. The last 5 years of this splendidly executed and rare magazine (issued between 1848 and 1860) in first edition by the Ghent horticulturists Alexander Jacques and Ambroise Verschaffelt. The handcoloured lithographed plates finished with gum arabic by G. Severyns and L. Stroobant after Bernard Leon et al.