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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

perhaps the most renowned and sought-after of all orchid books

BATEMAN, J. The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala.

London, J. Richway & Sons. (1837)- 1843. Elephant folio (740 x 525 mm). One-page subscriber's list,addenda and corrigenda slip bound at back, litho...

EUR 75,000

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

First illustrated monograph on orchids, likewise the first work on African orchids

DU PETIT-THOUARS, A.A. Histoire particulière des plantes Orchidées recueillies sur les trois îles Australes d'Afrique, de France, de Bourbon et de Madagascar.

Paris, A. Bertrand/ Treuttel & Wurtz, 1822. Royal-8vo (265 x 175mm). pp. viii, 1-32, with 2 folded tables and 110 engraved plates. Later dark green...

EUR 5,500

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

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 rarest iconographies published on Orchids

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 (bindings worn).

EUR 14,000

an important record of orchid varieties discovered and described in the 19th century

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