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ORCHIDS FROM CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [London: L. Reeve & Co., various dates.]
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ORCHIDS FROM CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.
[London: L. Reeve & Co., various dates.]
4 volumes, 4to (240 x 152 mm). Approximately 160 engraved and lithographed plates, some colored, and some double page. 20th century red-brown calf, titled in gilt on spines. Coves slightly rubbed, browning to contents, some tape repairs to plates.
Assembled from various issues of the magazine, with an explanatory note loosely inserted in volume I: "These orchid prints from the Curtis's Botanical Magazine were assembled by the chief botanist for the United Fruit Company at a time when the United Fruit Company dominated many of the Central and South American fruit producing countries. He had the prints bound with their accompanying descriptions into these four volumes in Panama...." An interesting compendium of illustrations, depicting only orchids, from a well-known horticultural periodical.
WITH: HUNT, DAVID R., editor. Orchids from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. London: Curwen Books, 1981. Small 4to. Publisher's cloth, pink printed dust jacket. Lightly sunned. (2 copies.)
4 volumes, 4to (240 x 152 mm). Approximately 160 engraved and lithographed plates, some colored, and some double page. 20th century red-brown calf, titled in gilt on spines. Coves slightly rubbed, browning to contents, some tape repairs to plates.
Assembled from various issues of the magazine, with an explanatory note loosely inserted in volume I: "These orchid prints from the Curtis's Botanical Magazine were assembled by the chief botanist for the United Fruit Company at a time when the United Fruit Company dominated many of the Central and South American fruit producing countries. He had the prints bound with their accompanying descriptions into these four volumes in Panama...." An interesting compendium of illustrations, depicting only orchids, from a well-known horticultural periodical.
WITH: HUNT, DAVID R., editor. Orchids from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. London: Curwen Books, 1981. Small 4to. Publisher's cloth, pink printed dust jacket. Lightly sunned. (2 copies.)