Title: Orchids: The Royal Family of Plants - six lithographs from the book Author: M[iner], H[arriet] S. Place: Publisher: Date: [1885] Description: Six chromolithograph plates. 13½x10½. Three in matting. Includes the following plates: VI Cattleya Chocoensis, XIII Oncidium Barkerii, XVI Odontoglossum Roezlii Album, XVIII Odontoglossum Alexandrae, XXII Cypripedium Niveum, and XXIII Cypripedium Haynaldianum. From the first book on orchids with color plates by an American artist. Lot Amendments Condition: Dampstains to each plate on left edge, extending about 1-3" inward, and generally faint, except for one darker spot on Plate XVIII, some light creasing and edge wear to each; some with a bit of the color rubbed away from surface; good to very good. Item number: 204109
Title: Orchids: The Royal Family of Plants - six lithographs from the book Author: M[iner], H[arriet] S. Place: Publisher: Date: [1885] Description: Six chromolithograph plates. 13½x10½. Three in matting. Includes the following plates: VI Cattleya Chocoensis, XIII Oncidium Barkerii, XVI Odontoglossum Roezlii Album, XVIII Odontoglossum Alexandrae, XXII Cypripedium Niveum, and XXIII Cypripedium Haynaldianum. From the first book on orchids with color plates by an American artist. Lot Amendments Condition: Dampstains to each plate on left edge, extending about 1-3" inward, and generally faint, except for one darker spot on Plate XVIII, some light creasing and edge wear to each; some with a bit of the color rubbed away from surface; good to very good. Item number: 204109
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