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Correvon, H. [Henry]

Album des Orchidees de l'Europe Centrale et Septrentrionale

1899

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Year of publication
1899
Place of printing
Geneva, Paris. Librairie George, Librairie O. Doin
Author
Correvon, H. [Henry]
Edition
First edition.
Keyword
Nature - Botany Orchids
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

8vo [25 x 16.5 cm]; xii, [vi], 92, [120], [iv, ads with illus] pp, 60 plates, of which 59 are fine colored lithographs (chromolithographs), other illustrations in text. original green cloth, gilt title lettering, rubbed at edges, some light foxing mostly marginal else a very good copy with good impressions of the plates, inscribed presentation copy in French signed by author dated May 1899. A picture of this book is avai Nissen 406a. Not in Glikbarg. Correvon, Swiss botanist and alpinist, wrote a number of influential works on alpine plants and flowers. The very attractive plates in this original edition are finely done and superior to those in the 1923 reprint. Each plate has the scientific name, and the common names in French, English and German. The text is in French.
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