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IMPORTANT BOTANICAL BOOKS FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF THE CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN
SANDER, Henry Frederick Conrad (1847-1920). Reichenbachia, Orchids illustrated and described. London: J. French for Henry Sotheran & Co and F. Sander & Co. of St. Albans, 1892, 1895.
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SANDER, Henry Frederick Conrad (1847-1920). Reichenbachia, Orchids illustrated and described. London: J. French for Henry Sotheran & Co and F. Sander & Co. of St. Albans, 1892, 1895.
Second series (only, of 2) in 2 volumes, 2° (520 x 385 mm). Text in English, French and German, 96 fine chromolithographic plates, by Joseph Mansell, G. Leutzsch and J.L. Macfarlane after Henry Moon, W.H. Fitch, A.H. Loch and C. Storer, wood-engraved illustrations. (A few plates with small surface remnants of tissue guard, plate 75 with tissue guard adhered, a few leaves with torn corners, some offsetting from a few tissue guards to plates or text leaves.) Contemporary green half morocco, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, top edge gilt (some rubbing to joints and edges, small library labels on foot of spines).
FIRST EDITION of the second series of this "important and authoritative work for orchid growers" (Great Flower Books), named in honor of Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1824-1889), botanist and celebrated orchidologist. After a lifetime largely devoted to Orchids, Reichenbach's death during the publication of the present work caused controversy when it was revealed that he had left his herbarium and library to the natural history museum in Vienna, on the condition that the preserved orchids and orchid drawings were not to be consulted for 25 years after his death. Sander had started an independent business in 1874. The firm was later expanded with establishments in both America and Belgium. The present work covers the period when the firm was at its most active: Sander's had twenty orchid collectors working simultaneously in Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Madagascar, New Guinea, Burma, and Malaya. Henry Moon's "most celebrated illustrations were made for Frederick Sander's great orchid book Reichenbachia..." (B. Elliott, Treasures of the Royal Horticultural Society 1994, p.114). Great Flower Books p. 75; Nissen BBI 1722; Stafleu-Cowan TL2 10.219.
Second series (only, of 2) in 2 volumes, 2° (520 x 385 mm). Text in English, French and German, 96 fine chromolithographic plates, by Joseph Mansell, G. Leutzsch and J.L. Macfarlane after Henry Moon, W.H. Fitch, A.H. Loch and C. Storer, wood-engraved illustrations. (A few plates with small surface remnants of tissue guard, plate 75 with tissue guard adhered, a few leaves with torn corners, some offsetting from a few tissue guards to plates or text leaves.) Contemporary green half morocco, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, top edge gilt (some rubbing to joints and edges, small library labels on foot of spines).
FIRST EDITION of the second series of this "important and authoritative work for orchid growers" (Great Flower Books), named in honor of Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1824-1889), botanist and celebrated orchidologist. After a lifetime largely devoted to Orchids, Reichenbach's death during the publication of the present work caused controversy when it was revealed that he had left his herbarium and library to the natural history museum in Vienna, on the condition that the preserved orchids and orchid drawings were not to be consulted for 25 years after his death. Sander had started an independent business in 1874. The firm was later expanded with establishments in both America and Belgium. The present work covers the period when the firm was at its most active: Sander's had twenty orchid collectors working simultaneously in Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Madagascar, New Guinea, Burma, and Malaya. Henry Moon's "most celebrated illustrations were made for Frederick Sander's great orchid book Reichenbachia..." (B. Elliott, Treasures of the Royal Horticultural Society 1994, p.114). Great Flower Books p. 75; Nissen BBI 1722; Stafleu-Cowan TL2 10.219.