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BATEMAN, James (1811-1897). A Second Century of Orchidaceous Plants. London: J.E. Taylor & Co. for L. Reeve & Co., 1867.
4° (310 x 242mm). Half-title, title, preface, index, 100 HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES by W. Fitch, numbered 101-200. (A few plates very lightly spotted, index leaf more heavily spotted, most plates and text leaves unobtrusively reinforced at inner margin.) Original publisher's green cloth, titled in gilt on front cover and spine (short tear to head of spine, extremities lightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of Bateman's continuation of Sir William Jackson Hooker's A Century of Orchidaceous Plants, published by Reeve in 1846. Like its predecessor, the present work is a selection of orchids already featured in Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Nissen BBI 87; Stafleu & Cowan 344; Great Flower Books p. 49.
4° (310 x 242mm). Half-title, title, preface, index, 100 HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES by W. Fitch, numbered 101-200. (A few plates very lightly spotted, index leaf more heavily spotted, most plates and text leaves unobtrusively reinforced at inner margin.) Original publisher's green cloth, titled in gilt on front cover and spine (short tear to head of spine, extremities lightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of Bateman's continuation of Sir William Jackson Hooker's A Century of Orchidaceous Plants, published by Reeve in 1846. Like its predecessor, the present work is a selection of orchids already featured in Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Nissen BBI 87; Stafleu & Cowan 344; Great Flower Books p. 49.