Pescatorea. Iconographie des orchidées, Brussels, Ghent and Leipzig [1854-]1860, green half calf

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Lot 69 | Pescatorea. Iconographie des orchidées, Brussels, Ghent and Leipzig [1854-]1860, green half calf
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Pescatorea. Iconographie des orchidées de la collection de M. Pescatore, au Chateau de la Celle-St.-Cloud… Premier volume [all published]. Brussels, Ghent and Leipzig: M. Hayez for Librairie de Charles Muquardt, [1854]–1860

FIRST EDITION, folio (445 x 315mm.), 48 hand-coloured lithographed plates by F. Detollenaere after Detollenaere and Maubert, contemporary green half calf, occasional toning, text block cracking in places

An important large-format work on a wide-ranging selection of the most beautiful tropical orchids.

Château de La Celle Saint-Cloud is an estate in Yvelines, just north of Versailles. In 1844 it was bought by Jean-Pierre Pescatorea, a wealthy tobacco merchant. Together with his wife and the Bulher brothers they transformed the gardens, building a manège, an orangerie, a path lined with foreign and exotic trees, and an orchid greenhouse.
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