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[Botany - Gardens] NICHOLSON, George Dictionnaire pratique d'horticulture et de jardinage. Illustré de plus de figures dans le texte et de planches chromolitographiées hors texte [...]. Traduit, mis à jour et adapté à notre climat, à nos usages, etc., etc. par S. Mottet [...]. Paris, O. Doin, Libr. Agricole, Vilmorin-Andrieux et Cie, 1892-5 vol., 4to: 75+1 pl. in b/w (of 80+(text n.c., pl. missing; bookblock of vol. 3 loose, loosening of vol. 4). Contemp. black shagreen, spines with 4 raised bands (faded, head and tail def., joints splitting). French translation by Séraphin J. Mottet (1861-of "The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening" by Nicholson (1847-1908), English botanist and horticulturist, curator of Kew Gardens, who was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour by the Royal Horticultural Society in for his contribution to horticulture. Ill. with chromo-lithographs and one in b/w drawn by Henri Caruchet, R. Godard, A. Lefevre Elisa Champion, etc. Abundantly ill. in text. Ref. Stafleu & Cowan - BnF. - COPAC. - Not in Pritzel, Nissen nor Sitwell.