René OBERTHÜR

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René OBERTHÜR
Colour directory to help determine the colours of Flowers, Foliage and Fruit... S.l., Société française des Chrysanthémistes, 1905. In-8, green wedge-cut half-shell, spine with 5 nerves (contemporary binding). 11-(4f.)-82-368pl. An improbable repertoire of colours classified by force of tones whose design was conceived in 1899, at the Horticultural Congress of Lyon, in order to overcome the difficulty of describing the different shades of chrisanthemums. From this work, based in part on Chevreul's, was born this "colour chart" where more than 1000 shades are reproduced on 365 plates with, for each of them, the French, German, English, Spanish and Italian names, as well as the names of the plants where they are found. We join 2 covers for the comparison of the colours. Bound rubbed, faded, several looseleaf, some damaged in the outer margin.
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