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LINDEN, Lucien (1851-1940), C.A. COGNIAUX and G. GRIGNAN. Les Orchidées Exotiques et leur Culture en Europe. Brussels: for the author, and Paris: Octave Doin, 1894. 8° (270 x 180mm). Engraved illustrations throughout, several double-page engraved plates after J. Weathers, Gardchron, E. Vermorgken and others. Contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt in six compartments, lettered in two, t.e.g. (corners bumped). FIRST EDITION. Stafleu & Cowan 4629. -- M.J. GODFERY. Monograph and Iconograph of Native British Orchidaceae. Cambridge: University Press, 1933. Large 4° (310 x 243mm). Colour-printed frontispiece and 57 colour-printed plates after Hilda M. Godfery, 9 monochrome plates, addenda and corrigenda (1 leaf) loosely inserted. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt (corners bumped). FIRST EDITION. Nissen BBI 724. -- Jocelyn BROOKE. The Wild Orchids of Britain. London: The Bodley Head, 1950. Large 8° (340 x 205mm). Frontispiece and 40 colour-printed plates after Gavin Bone, additional drawings by Muirhead and Stephen Bone. Original red cloth gilt, in green dust-jacket (dust-jacket with small tears to spien and corners, extremities bumped). Number 352 of 1,140 copies. FIRST EDITION. Nissen BBI 243a. -- And 12 other works on British and European orchid cultivation, including works by B.S. Williams, O. de Kerchove de Denterghem, C.H. Curtis, W. Watson and E. and O. Danesch. (15)