A COLLECTION OF ORCHID BOOKS
PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN COLLECTOR
AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, INDIA AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA -- Johannes Jacobus SMITH. Die Orchideen von Java. Figuren-Atlas. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1908-14. 6 volumes, 8° (247 x 174mm). 148 lithographic plates by M. Kromohardjo after the author. (Title to volume V lightly spotted.) Original paper wrappers (vol. I without wrappers, front cover of vol. VI slightly creased, spines yellowed). FIRST EDITION. Stafleu & Cowan 12.265 (mistakenly requiring 18 plates, not 17, in vol. VI). -- Henri PERRIER DE LA BATHIE. Flore de Madagascar . . . 49e famille: Orchidées. Edited by H. Humbert. [Antananarivo, Madagascar]: Government of Madagascar, August 1939. 2 volumes, 8° (242 x 150mm). Line drawings in the text. (Lacking titles.) Modern green cloth gilt, part of original wrapper to vol. I loosely inserted. -- William Henrey NICHOLLS. Orchids of Australia. The Complete Edition. Edited by D. L. Jones and T. B. Muir. Melbourne and Sydney: Thomas Nelson Ltd., 1969. 2° (329 x 246mm). 476 colour-printed plates, some double-page, after Nicholls. Original brown morocco, front cover with gilt orchid stamp, spine with two black morocco lettering-pieces, in green cloth box, gilt (front hinge split). Number 22 of 150 copies. Cf. note to Stafleu & Cowan vol. III, p. 740. -- And 29 other volumes on the orchids of New Guinea, Australia, Malaya, the Himalayas, Thailand, the Philippines and Southern, Central and Eastern Africa, including works by R. Schlecter, J. D. Hooker, A.W. Dockrill, G. Williamson, R.E. Holttum, M.R. Henderson and G.H. Addison, G. Seidenfaden and T. Smitinand and F. Gagnepain. (38)
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AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, INDIA AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA -- Johannes Jacobus SMITH. Die Orchideen von Java. Figuren-Atlas. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1908-14. 6 volumes, 8° (247 x 174mm). 148 lithographic plates by M. Kromohardjo after the author. (Title to volume V lightly spotted.) Original paper wrappers (vol. I without wrappers, front cover of vol. VI slightly creased, spines yellowed). FIRST EDITION. Stafleu & Cowan 12.265 (mistakenly requiring 18 plates, not 17, in vol. VI). -- Henri PERRIER DE LA BATHIE. Flore de Madagascar . . . 49e famille: Orchidées. Edited by H. Humbert. [Antananarivo, Madagascar]: Government of Madagascar, August 1939. 2 volumes, 8° (242 x 150mm). Line drawings in the text. (Lacking titles.) Modern green cloth gilt, part of original wrapper to vol. I loosely inserted. -- William Henrey NICHOLLS. Orchids of Australia. The Complete Edition. Edited by D. L. Jones and T. B. Muir. Melbourne and Sydney: Thomas Nelson Ltd., 1969. 2° (329 x 246mm). 476 colour-printed plates, some double-page, after Nicholls. Original brown morocco, front cover with gilt orchid stamp, spine with two black morocco lettering-pieces, in green cloth box, gilt (front hinge split). Number 22 of 150 copies. Cf. note to Stafleu & Cowan vol. III, p. 740. -- And 29 other volumes on the orchids of New Guinea, Australia, Malaya, the Himalayas, Thailand, the Philippines and Southern, Central and Eastern Africa, including works by R. Schlecter, J. D. Hooker, A.W. Dockrill, G. Williamson, R.E. Holttum, M.R. Henderson and G.H. Addison, G. Seidenfaden and T. Smitinand and F. Gagnepain. (38)