AMERICA, South -- Frederico Carlos HOEHNE. Iconografia de Orchidaceas do Brasil. São Paulo: Funtimod and Fortuna Comp. Litd., 1949. 2° (320 x 215mm). 316 plates including 300 of different species of orchid, many printed in colour, mainly reproduced from Hoehne's Flora Brasilica, but with several newly drawn, after M. Hoehn, G. Muench, M.I. Silveira and others, or from the author's photographs, numerous photographic illustrations in the text. (Short tear to lower margin of title and contents page, not affecting text.) Later half morocco, front cover with part of original ?wrapper laid down (extremities rubbed). -- G.C.K. DUNSTERVILLE and LESLIE A. GARAY. Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated. London: André Deutsch, 1959-76. 6 volumes, large 4° (278 x 211mm). Colour photographic plates, full-page line drawings and maps. Original red cloth with dust-jackets, volumes I-IV in protective plastic sleeves. (Some volumes with corners slightly bumped.) -- And 14 other works on South American orchids, mainly from Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru, in 30 volumes, including works by Hoehne, E. Foldats, R. Schlecter, C. Schweinfurth and G.F.J. Pabst and F. Dungs. (37)