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MINER, Harriet Stewart (fl.1885). Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants, with illustrations from nature. Boston: Lee and Shepard and New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1885. 2° (342 x 256mm). 24 FINE CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC PLATES after the author. (Occasional light offsetting onto text, one or two plates with tips of corners slightly creased or soiled.) Modern brown morocco, black morocco lettering-piece on spine (slightly scuffed); original green cloth front wrapper, with gilt orchid decoration, bound in, g.e. FIRST EDITION. Nissen BBI 1382; Stafleu & Cowan 6081. -- James H. VEITCH (1868-1907). Hortus Veitchii. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons. London: James Veitch & Sons Ltd., 1906. Large 8° (275 x 187mm). Title in red and black, 50 PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES. (Slight spotting to title and a few preliminary leaves.) Original purple cloth, titled in gilt on spine (spine faded, corners slightly bumped). Second issue, "For Private Circulation only". Stafleu & Cowan 15.974. -- [Harry James VEITCH (1840-1924) and Adolphus Henry KENT (1828-1913).] A Manual of Orchidaceous Plants Cultivated Under Glass in Great Britain. London: James Veitch & Sons, 1887-94. 10 parts in 2 volumes, 8° (242 x 148mm). Engraved plates, several hand-coloured, chromolihtographic folding maps. (Some leaves loose.) Original publisher's cloth, covers with stamped in gilt with an orchid and monogram (rebacked, old spines laid down). Cf. Stafleu & Cowan 15.971 (stating that numbers of plates vary in each copy). -- Julien Noël COSTANTIN. Atlas des Orchidées Cultivées . Paris: E. Orlhac, n.d. Text, supplement and plates in 2 volumes, 2° (314 x 217mm). 30 COLOUR-PRINTED PLATES, line drawings in the text. (Lacking pp. 85-6 of text, possibly title to Liste Alphabétique, pp. 86-91 bound at back of plate volume, inner margins strengthened.) Morocco-backed green cloth boards (extremities rubbed), front cover to fascicule I bound in. (6)