Title: Orchids: The Royal Family of Plants Author: Miner, Harriet Stewart Place: Boston Publisher: Lea and Shepard Date: 1885 Description: 90 pp. With 24 chromolithgraphed plates after Miner. 13¾x10¼, original gilt-stamped pictorial cloth, ribbon ties, moire endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition. The first book on orchids with color plates by an American artist; the superb plates were engraved on stone and printed by the Hatch Lithographic Company of New York. Lot Amendments Condition: Ex-library, with bookplate on pastedown, perforated stamp on title-page, and stamps on verso of each plate; covers moderately worn, interior with light spotting and soiling, plates mostly clean; overall very good. Item number: 199231
Title: Orchids: The Royal Family of Plants Author: Miner, Harriet Stewart Place: Boston Publisher: Lea and Shepard Date: 1885 Description: 90 pp. With 24 chromolithgraphed plates after Miner. 13¾x10¼, original gilt-stamped pictorial cloth, ribbon ties, moire endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition. The first book on orchids with color plates by an American artist; the superb plates were engraved on stone and printed by the Hatch Lithographic Company of New York. Lot Amendments Condition: Ex-library, with bookplate on pastedown, perforated stamp on title-page, and stamps on verso of each plate; covers moderately worn, interior with light spotting and soiling, plates mostly clean; overall very good. Item number: 199231
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