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Backeberg : Blätter für Kakteenforschung, 1934-38
Backeberg : Die Cactaceae, 1958-62
Backeberg: various rare catalogues.
Berger: Die Agaven.
Berger: Kakteen.
Berger: A systematic revision of the genus Cereus Mill..
Bonpland: Description des plantes rares cultivées à Malmaison et à Navarre, 1813.
Bradley: The history of succulent plants, 1716-1727!
Britton et Rose: The cactaceae, the original!
Brown, Tischer, Karsten: Mesembryanthema, 1931
Coulter: A Preliminary Revision of the North American Species of Cactus…
Darwin: The power of movement in plants.
Diguet: Les cactées utiles du Mexique.
Engelmann: The cactaceæ of the boundary, 1857-59
Förster: Handbuch der Cacteenkunde, 1846 & 1886.
Fric and Kreuzinger: three famous catalogues.
Fric et Kreuzinger : Zur Revision der Systematik der Kakteen von Karl Kreuzinger.
Kiesßling: Tephrocactus…, 2000.
Krainz et al.: Die Kakteen.
Lambert : Cactus d'Argentine, seconde édition, 1997
Lemaire: Cactearum aliquot…, of 1838
Lemaire: les cactées, dated 1868, in old french.
Lemaire : Iconographie descriptive des cactées, dated 1841-1847.
Lemaire : Les plantes grasses autre que les cactées., 1869.
Lindley : Paxton's flower garden.
Marshall and Bock: The cactaceae… continued.
Nel: Lithops. The first book devoted to the “living stones”.
Nel: The Gibbaeum Handbook.
Paxton : Paxton's flower garden.
Phytographe: strange although instructive and premonitory.
Pilbeam: Gymnocalycium. A collector's guide, 1995.
Putnam: Gymnocalyciums, 1978.
Rausch: the ”lobivia” of 1975 and 1985.
Redouté : Les Liliacées, 26 plates, 1802…
Redouté & (de) Candolle: Histoire des plantes grasses, 1799…
Ritter : Kakteen Südamerika, 1979-81
Ritter/Winter: Catalogues of the '50
Rose: Notes on useful plants of Mexico.
Rowley : Pierre-Joseph Redouté — “Raphael of the succulents”., article from CSJ GB, 1956
Rowley : Iconographie Descriptive des Cactées — Introduction to Strawberry Press Edition.
Schumann : Gesamtbeschreung der Kakteen (without supplement).
Schumann, Gürke, Vaupel: Blühende Kakteen
Sprechman: Lithops, 1970.
Wahl : Lobivia 89.
Watson: the “Old, old Lexicon”.
Weniger : Cacti of Texas and neighboring states, 1984.
Weniger : Cacti of the Southwest, 1970.
Werdermann: Blühende Kakteen… continued.

Cactus & Co: Cactus & Co journal. Old issues of this very beautiful italian publication. Anciens numéros de cette très belle publication italienne.
Catalogues: Old french catalogues.
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
Curtis's Botanical Magazine: Cacti and other succulents. A beautiful series of colour plates.
Edwards's Botanical Register: Cacti and other succulents. Again a beautiful series of colour plates.
Flore des serres et des jardins de l'europe: Belgian periodical of the 19^th century.
Illustration horticole: Belgian periodical of the 19^th century.
Informationsbriefe Echinopseen: Old issues of a publication devoted to Trichocereus, Echinopsis, Lobivia, Rebutia, Sulcorebutia, Weingartia…
Jardin fleuriste: Belgian periodical of the 19^th siècle.
Succulenta: Old issues of the dutch journal, and various other stuff.

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