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LINDEN, JEAN-JULES. 1817-1898. Lindenia. Iconographie des Orchidées. Directeur J. Linden. Rédacteurs en chef: Lucien Linden & Emile Rodigas avec la collaboration de spécialistes éminents. Ghent: F. Meyer-Van Loo (later E. Vanderhaegen), 1885-1901. image 1
LINDEN, JEAN-JULES. 1817-1898. Lindenia. Iconographie des Orchidées. Directeur J. Linden. Rédacteurs en chef: Lucien Linden & Emile Rodigas avec la collaboration de spécialistes éminents. Ghent: F. Meyer-Van Loo (later E. Vanderhaegen), 1885-1901. image 2
A Private Collection of Orchidacea
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LINDEN, JEAN-JULES. 1817-1898.
Lindenia. Iconographie des Orchidées. Directeur J. Linden. Rédacteurs en chef: Lucien Linden & Emile Rodigas avec la collaboration de spécialistes éminents. Ghent: F. Meyer-Van Loo (later E. Vanderhaegen), 1885-1901.

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LINDEN, JEAN-JULES. 1817-1898.

Lindenia. Iconographie des Orchidées. Directeur J. Linden. Rédacteurs en chef: Lucien Linden & Emile Rodigas avec la collaboration de spécialistes éminents. Ghent: F. Meyer-Van Loo (later E. Vanderhaegen), 1885-1901.
17 volumes (see note below), folio (350 x 268 mm). 800 numbered chromolithographed plates on 788 sheets (12 double-page each with two plate numbers) by P. de Pannemaeker, G. Severeyns and J. Goffart after P. de Pannemaeker, A. Goussens, J. de Bosschere, G. Putzys and others, (no number 795 as issued, number 525 a black and white photographic reproduction), 2 uncolored portraits. Uniformly bound in early 20th-century half morocco, top edge gilt, marbled boards, original wrappers bound in (some spines faded to brown, approximately 7 volumes with dried spines with light dampstaining along the top edge and upper spine ends; occasionally some minor staining to plates.

FIRST EDITION of this scarce work. Linden travelled extensively in South and Central America between 1835 and 1844. He was a plant dealer at Luxemburg from 1845 to 1852 before becoming director of the Jardin Royal at Brussels from 1852 to 1861. He continued his work introducing new plants and dealing in Brussels and Ghent, being succeeded as director of his company by his younger son Lucien Linden (1853-1940)."An orchid hunter par excellence ... [he] was the first to search the mountain regions diligently for his orchids. In so doing, he was able to obtain many cool-temperature plants for his sponsors in Belgium. After ten years in the western hemisphere, Linden returned to work in Brussels in 1845, where with his son, Lucien, he founded Horticulture Internationale, the first major commercial competitor of the British orchid house Messrs. Sander" (The Orchid Observed no 16). Without Livraisons 9-12 of vol 17 published in 1906. Great Flower Books, p 85; Nissen BBI 2348; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 4628.

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