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A Private Collection of Orchidacea, Part II
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MINER, HARRIET STEWART. 1840-1895.
Orchids: The Royal Family of Plants. Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1889.

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MINER, HARRIET STEWART. 1840-1895.

Orchids: The Royal Family of Plants. Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1889.
Folio. 24 chromolithographic plates after Miner. Publisher's pictorial cloth stamped in brown and gilt, all edges gilt. Rubbed, spine ends chipped, fingermarks, library blindstamp on title, light browning.

Second edition. When first published, this was the first color plate book on orchids by an American. "This is the ranking work on the subject, and very striking" (Bennett, American Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books p 78). Nissen BBI, 1382 (first edition of 1885).

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