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Agriculture - Horticulture - Wilhelm, Gottlieb Tobias. Ornamental plants and their treatment. An exact description and illustration of those plants which are planted for ornament and pleasure both in the garden, outdoors and in heated and covered rooms, with much art, experience and expense. An instructive manual for flower gardening. With 66 colored copper plates. Augsburg, Schlosser, 1828. 3 pp., 748 (recte 754) pp., 16 pp. 16 x 10.5 cm. Half leather binding of the time (rubbed, spine somewhat cracked). Unterhaltungen aus dem Pflanzenreiche, vol. 10 - Published anonymously. - Dochnahl 173 (edition of 1822) and 178 (this edition, without author's name and with only 6 engravings). - The present edition not in the KVK; probably a reprint of the edition Vienna, Pichler 1821; an earlier edition with the same number of plates, but considerably fewer pages of text. - Stamp on endpapers, plates partly with handwritten text in pencil, partly slightly browned or somewhat stained. VAT: *
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Agriculture - Horticulture - Wilhelm, Gottlieb Tobias. Ornamental plants and their treatment. An exact description and illustration of those plants which are planted for ornament and pleasure both in the garden, outdoors and in heated and covered rooms, with much art, experience and expense. An instructive manual for flower gardening. With 66 colored copper plates. Augsburg, Schlosser, 1828. 3 pp., 748 (recte 754) pp., 16 pp. 16 x 10.5 cm. Half leather binding of the time (rubbed, spine somewhat cracked). Unterhaltungen aus dem Pflanzenreiche, vol. 10 - Published anonymously. - Dochnahl 173 (edition of 1822) and 178 (this edition, without author's name and with only 6 engravings). - The present edition not in the KVK; probably a reprint of the edition Vienna, Pichler 1821; an earlier edition with the same number of plates, but considerably fewer pages of text. - Stamp on endpapers, plates partly with handwritten text in pencil, partly slightly browned or somewhat stained. VAT: *
