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KERCHOVE DE DENTERGHEM, Oswald, comte de (1844-1906). Les Palmiers, Histoire Iconographique. Paris: J. Rothschild, 1878.
8o (275 x 182 mm). Half-title, 40 engraved colored plates, one folding table, numerous in-text illustrations. (Some spotting throughout, a few short marginal tears, some repaired.) Later quarter calf, original wrappers bound in (some scuffing to extremities and spine).
FIRST EDITION. Kerchove, a Belgian politician, was also an internationally recognized authority on palms and orchids. RARE: According to American Book Prices Current, only two copies of this work have appeared at auction in the last 20 years.
8o (275 x 182 mm). Half-title, 40 engraved colored plates, one folding table, numerous in-text illustrations. (Some spotting throughout, a few short marginal tears, some repaired.) Later quarter calf, original wrappers bound in (some scuffing to extremities and spine).
FIRST EDITION. Kerchove, a Belgian politician, was also an internationally recognized authority on palms and orchids. RARE: According to American Book Prices Current, only two copies of this work have appeared at auction in the last 20 years.