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[BOTANICALS]. VERSCHAFFELT, Ambroise, editor. Nouvelle Iconographie des Camellias Contenant les Figures et la Description des Plus Rares, des Plus Nouvelles et des Plus Belles Varietes de ce Genre. Ghent: C. Annoot–Braeckman for the editor, 1860. 12 parts in one volume, tall 8vo. Half–title, 48 hand–colored lithographs, each under tissue–guard (occasional light spotting to plates). Contemporary quarter green sheep gilt (spine gently sunned, few spots of surface wear to boards). FIRST EDITION of Volume 13, originally published in monthly parts and bound into 13 volumes between 1848 and 1860, with each issue containing four plates. “The work is one of the rarest and greatest of the nineteenth-century camellia iconographies. The Verschaffelts were a family of nurserymen specializing in camellias and published this book really as a catalogue of newly introduced species and recently developed hybrids which were available from their nurseries” (De Belder). Nissen BBI 2056; Great Flower Books, p. 85.