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Livres anciens et modernes

Miner, Harriet Stewart

Orchids The Royal Family of Plants, with Illustrations from Nature

1889

517,94 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1889
Lieu d'édition
Boston. Lee and Shepard
Auteur
Miner, Harriet Stewart
Thème
Gardening - Orchids Color Plate & Fine Illus Orchids
Langues
Anglais

Description

folio [36 x 27 cm]; 90 pp, 24 fine color lithographed (chromolithograph) plates from the author's paintings of live plants. original pictorial gilt cloth, gilt spine title lettering, all edges gilted, spine ends worn, rubbed from shelf wear, interior clean with only light offsetting from plates on opposite leaves, very good copy, with good impressions of plates. A picture of t Bennett (American Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books) p. 78: 'This is the ranking work on the subject, and very striking'. Nissen BBI 1382. This is apparently the first color plate orchid book by an American. The plates include Dendrobium, Masedvallia, Cattleya, Laelia, Phalaenopsis, Oncidium, Calanthe, Odontoglossum, Lycaste, Cymbidiums, Vanda, etc. Woodburn-Hedrick 577: 'large format with bightly colored chromolithographs'.