Title: Dictionnaire Iconographique des Orchidees Author: Cogniaux, Celestin Alfred and A. Goossens Place: Brussels Publisher: Date: 1897-1907 Description: 17 volumes, plus index. Approximately 824 chromolithograph plates, including a few folding, with accompanying descriptive text. Approximately 14.5x18.5 cm (5½x7¼") loose in cloth or board portfolios, as issued. First Edition. Fabulous series of chromolithograph plates after A. Goossens, among the greatest of all orchid painters. The larger genera of the orchid are gathered in individual volumes, the remaining to two large compilation sections. The final volume comprises 61 supplementary text parts. Issued in an edition of only 250 copies. Also included is the wrapper-bound index volume. Nissen BBI, Supplement 2236n. Sold for the benefit of the Friends of Honolulu Botanical Gardens. Lot Amendments Condition: Library labels on spines and penciled numbering on title leaves but no library marking to contents. Plates overall very good to fine, a few of the folding plates splitting along the crease, some plates with small adhesion spots from opposing leaves. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. Item number: 270687
Title: Dictionnaire Iconographique des Orchidees Author: Cogniaux, Celestin Alfred and A. Goossens Place: Brussels Publisher: Date: 1897-1907 Description: 17 volumes, plus index. Approximately 824 chromolithograph plates, including a few folding, with accompanying descriptive text. Approximately 14.5x18.5 cm (5½x7¼") loose in cloth or board portfolios, as issued. First Edition. Fabulous series of chromolithograph plates after A. Goossens, among the greatest of all orchid painters. The larger genera of the orchid are gathered in individual volumes, the remaining to two large compilation sections. The final volume comprises 61 supplementary text parts. Issued in an edition of only 250 copies. Also included is the wrapper-bound index volume. Nissen BBI, Supplement 2236n. Sold for the benefit of the Friends of Honolulu Botanical Gardens. Lot Amendments Condition: Library labels on spines and penciled numbering on title leaves but no library marking to contents. Plates overall very good to fine, a few of the folding plates splitting along the crease, some plates with small adhesion spots from opposing leaves. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. Item number: 270687
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