Alex Verschaffelt൩ (vol.1) and Ambroise Verschaffelt (vols 2-13)

Nouvelle iconographie des Camellias, contenant les figures et une court description des plus rares, des plus nouvelles, et des plus belles variétés de ce genre. Ghent: for the publisher, 1848-1860

13 volumes, royal 8vo (267 x 177mm.), 623 hand-coloured lithographed plates, contemporary blue half morocco, marbled endpapers, some light spotting, extremities rubbed

A rare complete run of 13 (out of 13) volumes. This series constitutes one of the finest nineteenth-century publications on camellias. The Verschaffelt family, distinguished Belgian horticulturists, produced the work really as a catalogue of their newly introduced species and recently developed🌞 hybrids, which were available from their nurseries. The plates were drawn by Bernard Leon, L. St✨roobant and P. Stroobant.

PROVENANCE:

The John Innes Horticultural Institution, library stamps t𝓰o front 🦂free endpapers; the Insitution was established by John Innes, a merchant and philanthropist, at Merton Park in south-west London in 1910, before moving to Brayfordbury in 1945 and subsequently to Cambridge