List of European camellia books
List of European camellia books
- The origins of the name camellia
Georg Joseph Kamel, 1661-1706, Herbarium aliarumque stirpium in insula Luzone Philippinarum appendix in John Ray, 1627-1705, Historia plantarum; species hactenus editas insuper multas noviter inventas & descriptas complectens. London: M. Clark, H. Fairthorne, 1686-1704.
- The Greatest of Camellia Books
Samuel Curtis, 1779-1860, A monograph on the genus Camellia. London: J. & A. Arch, 1819.
- The first great European camellia book: the Baumanns
Carl Baumann; Napoléon Baumann, Bollweilerer Camellien-Sammlung dem ... A.P. de Candolle. 4 parts in 1. Bollweiller: [s.n.], 1828-35.
- Classifying camellia varieties: the Abbe Berlèse
Lorenzo Berlèse, 1784-1863s Monographie du genre Camellia: . . dans l'autre sont peintes, en deux gammes ascendants, les nuances des couleurs propres aux Camellia connus, avec leurs dénominations spécifiques. 2nd edition. Paris: L. Bouchard-Huzard, 1840.
- The camellia in Italy
Luigi Aloysius Colla, 1766-1848, Camelliografia, ossia, Tentativo di una nuova disposizione naturale della variet… della camellia del Giappone e loro descrizione. Torino: G. Pomba, 1843.
- The Verschaffelts: European camellia illustration after Berlèse
Ambroise Verschaffelt, 1825-1886, ed., Nouvelle iconographie des camellias: contenant les figures et la description des plus rares, des plus nouvelles et des plus belles variétés de ce genre. Vol. 4 (1853). 13 vols. Gand: Verschaffelt, 1848-60.
- The Muze
- The Lady of the Camellias (French: La Dame aux camélias) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, first published in 1848.
- Flower Fables (1854) by Louisa May Alcott is also based on the premise that camellias have no perfume.