Title: Orchids. The Royal Family of Plants Author: Miner, Harriet Stewart Place: Boston Publisher: Lee and Shepard Date: 1885 Description: 90 pp. With 24 chromolithgraphed plates after Miner. 13¾x10¼, original pictorial cloth, rebacked with modern cloth, new 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: Covers rubbed, corners worn; first two plates with edge-chipping (pl. 1 with loss of caption), pl. 23 with small adhesions, a few plates and text leaves reinserted with tissue visible in inner margin; else very good. Item number: 161237
Title: Orchids. The Royal Family of Plants Author: Miner, Harriet Stewart Place: Boston Publisher: Lee and Shepard Date: 1885 Description: 90 pp. With 24 chromolithgraphed plates after Miner. 13¾x10¼, original pictorial cloth, rebacked with modern cloth, new 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: Covers rubbed, corners worn; first two plates with edge-chipping (pl. 1 with loss of caption), pl. 23 with small adhesions, a few plates and text leaves reinserted with tissue visible in inner margin; else very good. Item number: 161237
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