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BLUME, Karel Lodewijk (1796-1862). Collection des Orchidées les plus remarquables de l'Archipel Indien et du Japon. Amsterdam: A. W. Sythoff for C. G. Sulpke, 1858 [-1859].
2° (455 x 282mm). Half-title, title, hand-coloured lithographic title, 70 lithographic plates, mainly hand-coloured, including one folding, by G. Severeyns and P. Lauters after Blume, A. J. Wendel, Latour and others. (Occasional offsetting of plates onto blank versos and a little light spotting.) Contemporary dark blue half morocco, t.e.g. (spine faded to brown and torn at base, joints cracked). Provenance: Frederick DuCane Godman (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of an attractive work on the orchids of the Malay archipelago, intended as a supplement to Blume's Flora Javae. The work is therefore also found under the title Flora Javae . . . Nova Series (see lot ). Nissen BBI 175; Great Flower Books p. 50; Stafleu TL2 569; BMC N.H. p. 179.
2° (455 x 282mm). Half-title, title, hand-coloured lithographic title, 70 lithographic plates, mainly hand-coloured, including one folding, by G. Severeyns and P. Lauters after Blume, A. J. Wendel, Latour and others. (Occasional offsetting of plates onto blank versos and a little light spotting.) Contemporary dark blue half morocco, t.e.g. (spine faded to brown and torn at base, joints cracked). Provenance: Frederick DuCane Godman (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of an attractive work on the orchids of the Malay archipelago, intended as a supplement to Blume's Flora Javae. The work is therefore also found under the title Flora Javae . . . Nova Series (see lot ). Nissen BBI 175; Great Flower Books p. 50; Stafleu TL2 569; BMC N.H. p. 179.