Subjects: Orchids
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Dans ce pays favorisé par la nature, croissent la plupart des orchidées de France, d'Italie, d'Allemange
BARLA, J.B.
Flore illustrée de Nice et des Alpes-Maritimes.
Iconographie des Orchidées. Nice, Caisson et Mignon, 1868. Folio (356 x 270mm). pp. (8), 83, (3), with 63 handcoloured lithographed plates. Contem...
EUR 3,500
The beautiful plates are by W. Fitch, probably the most renowned botanical artist of the Victorian era
BATEMAN, J.
A Second Century of Orchidaceous Plants.
Selected from the subjects published in 'Curtis' Botanical Magazine since the issue of the 'First Century'. London, L. Reeve & Co., 1867. Large-4to...
EUR 6,200
The first major work on the orchids of the Dutch East Indies and Japan
BLUME, C.L.
Collection des Orchidées les plus remarquables de l'Archipel Indien et du Japon.
Ouvrage dédié à sa Majesté Guillaume I Roi de Wurtemberg. Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, 1858. Folio (454 x 290mm). pp. (6), vi, 190, with hand-colour...
EUR 8,000
CAMUS, E.G. & CAMUS, A.
Iconographie des Orchidées d'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen.
Paris, Lechevaller, 1921-1929. 2 text-volumes and atlas. 4to & folio. pp. 559, (1); 72, with 1 portrait and 133 plates of which 110 finely handcolo...
EUR 1,200
First edition, first issue
DARWIN, C.
On the various contrivances by which British and foreign Orchids are fertilised by insects.
London, John Murray, 1862. 8vo (196 x 125 mm). pp. vi, 365, 32 (inserted advertisement dated December 1861), with one folding plate and 33 text wo...
EUR 2,200
'thanks to you the Australian Orchidaceae are now better known than those of any country out of Europe'
FITZGERALD, R.D.
Australian Orchids.
Sydney, Charles Potter, (1875-) 1882 (-94). 12 parts comprising 2 volumes, bound in one. Folio (470x 310 mm). With 119 (10 double-page) lithographe...
EUR 5,000
First major publication on the orchids of the Himalaya
KING, G. & PANTLING, R.
The Orchids of Sikkim Himalaya.
Calcutta, printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press, 1898. 4 volumes. Folio (348 x 275mm). pp. (14), iii, iv, 342, 11, with 453 lithographed plates o...
EUR 6,000
Linden was the first to search the mountainous regions diligently for his orchids
LINDEN, J.P.
Pescatorea. Iconographie des Orchidées. Avec la collaboration de J.E. Planchon, M.G. Reichenbach, G. Luddemann. Premier volume (all published).
Bruxelles, M. Hayez, 1860. Folio (450 x 330mm). pp. (vi), with 48 beautifully handcoloured lithographed plates, each plate with an explanatory leaf...
EUR 9,000
LINDENIA, ICONOGRAPHY OF ORCHIDS.
Conducted by J. Linden, Lucien Linden, Em. Rodigas and R. A. Rolfe.
Brussels, Lucien Linden, 1891. Folio (365 x 280mm). Parts 1-12. With 48 fine lithographed plates (numbered 265-312). Contemporary publisher's print...
EUR 960
LINDENIA, ICONOGRAPHY OF ORCHIDS.
Conducted by J. Linden, Lucien Linden, Em. Rodigas and R. A. Rolfe.
Brussels, Lucien Linden, 1891. Folio (365 x 280mm). Parts 1-12. With 48 fine lithographed plates (numbered 265-312). Contemporary publisher's print...
EUR 960
LINDENIA, ICONOGRAPHY OF ORCHIDS.
Conducted by J. Linden, Lucien Linden, Em. Rodigas and R. A. Rolfe.
Brussels, Lucien Linden, 1892-1894. Folio (365 x 280mm). Parts XIX-XXXVI. With 72 fine chromolithographed plates. Publisher's printed wrappers.
EUR 1,440
LINDENIA, ICONOGRAPHY OF ORCHIDS.
Conducted by J. Linden, Lucien Linden, Em. Rodigas and R. A. Rolfe.
Brussels, Lucien Linden, 1891-1892. Folio (365 x 280mm). Volumes II & III. With 48 fine chromolithographed plates (numbered 289-336). Contemporary ...
EUR 960
one of the rarest iconographies published on Orchids
LINDENIA. ICONOGRAPHIE DES ORCHIDEES.
edited by L. Linden (J. Linden & E. Rodigas a.o.).
Ghent/ Bruxelles 1855-1903. 17 volumes. Folio (350 x 260 mm). With 798 chromolithographed plates and 1 plain plate. Contemporary half cloth, gilt l...
EUR 38,000
One of the finest orchid books ever published
LINDLEY, J.
Sertum Orchidaceum: A Wreath of the Most Beautiful Orchidaceous Flowers.
London, James Ridgway and Sons, (1837-) 1838 (-41). Folio (545 x 360mm). pp. (xiv, 78), with a handcoloured lithographed frontispiece, dedication t...
EUR 20,000
H.G. Reichenbach succeeded John Lindley as 'orchid king'
REICHENBACH, H.G. & KRAENZLIN, W.L.
Xenia Orchidacea. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Orchideen.
Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1858-1900. 3 volumes. 4to (275 x 210mm). pp. x, 246; vii, 232; vi, 192, with 300 (150 partly hand-coloured) copper engravi...
EUR 8,500
The coloured issue is scarce
REICHENBACH, H.G. (Fil.).
Die Orchideen der deutschen Flora nebst denen des übrigen Europa, des ganzen russischen Reichs und Algiers also ein Versuch einer Orchideographie Europas.
Leipzig, Friederich Hofmeister, 1851. 4to (265 x 170mm). pp. (4), xii, 240, with 170 engraved plates of which 165 partially handcoloured. Contempo...
EUR 4,500
SCHLECHTER, R.
Beiträge zur Orchideenkunde von Zentralamerika. I: Orchidaceae Powellianae Panamenses. II: Additamenta ad Orchideologiam Costaricensem.
Dahlem bei Berlin, Verlag des Repertoriums, 1922-1923. 2 volumes. 8vo. pp. 95; 307. Publisher's printed wrappers.
EUR 250
SCHLECHTER, R.
Orchidaceae Perrierianae. Ein Beitrag zur Orchideenkunde der Insel Madagascar.
Dahlem bei Berlin, Verlag des Repertoriums, 1925. 8vo. pp. 391. Publisher's printed wrappers.
EUR 250
SCHLECHTER, R.
Orchideologiae Sino-Japonicae Prodromus. Eine kritische Besprechung der Orchideen Ost-Asiens.
Dahlem bei Berlin, Verlag des Repertoriums, 1919. 8vo (252 x 165mm). pp. (4), 319. Publisher's printed wrappers.
EUR 750
an important record of orchid varieties discovered and described in the 19th century
WARNER, R. & WILLIAMS, B.S.
The Orchid Album, comprising coloured figures and descriptions of New, Rare and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants.
London 1882-1897. 11 volumes. Large-4to (303 x 240mm). With 528 coloured plates. Publisher's pictorial gilt cloth, gilt edges.
EUR 14,000
only 100 copies were printed
WOOLWARD, F.H.
The genus Masdevallia.
Issued by the Marquess of Lothian, K.T., chiefly from plants in his collection of orchids at Newbattle Abbey. With additional notes by F.C. Lehmann...
EUR 11,000
only 100 copies were printed
WOOLWARD, F.H.
The genus Masdevallia.
Issued by the Marquess of Lothian, K.T., chiefly from plants in his collection of orchids at Newbattle Abbey. With additional notes by F.C. Lehmann...
EUR 11,000