GIHOUL, Louis. Culture forestière des arbres résineux conifères. Brussels: Librairie de Deprez-Parent, 1847. A rare work on conifers.
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GIHOUL, Louis (1831-1854). Culture forestière des arbres résineux conifères. Brussels: Librairie de Deprez-Parent, 1847.
8vo. 9 hand-colored lithographed plates. (Some minor foxing on title and preliminary leaves, a few other minor spots, a few plate margins trimmed slightly affecting images or captions/number). Orig cloth (spine sunned, small ink stain on upper cover, rear hinges tender).
A rare work on conifers, published simultaneously in Brussels, Breda and Paris. Contains detailed descriptions on various conifers, information on the different soils in which conifers grow, on the cultivation of forests, plantations, enemies, diseases, etc. Rheder IV, 441 (listing Breda as place of publication).
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil
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