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Libri Selecti Camelliae:

A CAMELLIA REPRINT LIBRARY

Editor: Klaus Peper

Each edition is limited to 50 exemplars, with 35 for sale and 15 for libraries.
Beyond this, unbound copies can be purchased at a nominal fee.
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Vol 1 Vol. 1
Traugott Jacob Seidel:
(=Jacob Friedrich Seidel)
Anleitung zur Cultur und Vermehrung der Camellien
Dresden 1837

Reprint:
19 pages, 1 handcolored print of a cutting.
15x21 cm, handbound, hardcover,
Homburg, 1993
Language: German. Translated to English in: International Camellia Journal 1996.

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This booklet could not be spottet neither in libraries nor with individuals, although appearently known to Dr. Schimmler 1934, who reproduced the illustration in his dissertation. In 1991 Mrs Schröder, a daughter of the last Seidel, came up with this print (without picture).

Vol 2 Vol. 2
Heinrich Fischer:
Vermehrung, Veredlung und Behandlung der Camellia japonica
Freiburg 1836

Reprint:
32 pages, 4 b/w prints.
14x21 cm, handbound, hardcover,
Homburg, 1993
Language: German.

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Schimmler (1934) did not know this paper, but we found an exemplar at the University Library of Freiburg, Germany

Vol 3 Vol. 3
Jacob Friedrich Seidel:
Über die Kultur der Camellien
Berlin 1830

Reprint:
5 pages, 14x21 cm, handbound, softcover,
Homburg, 1996
Language: German.

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Vol 4 Vol. 4
Jacob Traugott Seidel:
(=Jacob Friedrich Seidel)
Über die Camellien-Cultur und deren Fortschritte in neuerer Zeit
Dresden 1848

Reprint:
8 pages, 14x21 cm, handbound, softcover,
Homburg, 1996
Language: German.

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Vol 5 Vol. 5
Ferd. Freiherr von Biedenfeld
(editor and translator):
Practische Grundlehren der Cultur von Camellien
J. de Jonghe, van de Geert & Verschaffelt, Lemaire & Paillet
Weimar 1856

Reprint:
123 pages, 18x26 cm, handbound, hardcover, laserprint
Homburg, 1997
Language: German.

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Extremely seldom. This was copied from the Camellia Book Collection of an enthusiast. Later we detected an exemplar at Weimar.

Vol 6 Vol. 6
Wilhelm Neubert
Die Modepflanzen unserer Zeit: Camellia
Stuttgart 1839

Reprint:
48 pages, 13x19 cm, handbound, hardcover,
Homburg, 1998
Language: German.

DM55 or $30 incl. shipping

Vol 7 Vol. 7
Pierre Corneille van Geel:
Sertum Botanicum
Brussels 1830

10 pages + 8 colored plates
Language: French/Latin.
Extremely seldom

Reprint:
34 pages, 21x30 cm, handbound, hardcover,
English and German translations included.
Homburg, 1999
DM95 or $50 incl. shipping

Sertum Botanicum is a huge collection of text and colored plates in order to illustrate the Linne system of plant kingdom. Camellias were originally not included in this work (??), but obviously there was a later delivery of a camellia volume. A German book collector obtained this exemplar, any other copy elsewhere is not known. Text and lithographs of: Rubra, Crassifolia, Aucubaefolia, Pomponia, reticulata, Rosa sinensis, Splendens, sasanqua.

DM95 or $50 incl. shipping

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K.Peper -- May 2000