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A Private Collection of Orchidacea, Part II
Lot 1021¤

ORCHIDS OF NORTH AMERICA.
17 titles:

13 – 23 June 2023, 12:00 EDT
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ORCHIDS OF NORTH AMERICA.

17 titles:
1. AMES, OAKES. Orchidaceae. Boston: Houghton & Mifflin, 1906-1922. 6 of 7 volumes, lacking volume 5.
2. ---. An Enumeration of the Orchids of the United States and Canada. Boston: The American Orchid Society, 1924.
3. ---. The Genus Epidendrum in the United States and Middle America. Cambridge, MA: Botanical Museum, 1936. Wrappers.
4. GIBSON, WILLIAM HAMILTON. Our Native Orchids. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1905. (2 copies.)
5. MORRIS, FRANK. And EDWARD A. EAMES. Our Wild Orchids. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. (2 copies, one with pictorial jacket).
6. WHITE, EDWARD A. American Orchid Culture. New York: A.T. De La Mare Company, 1939 and 1942. (2 editions).
7. CORRELL, DONOVAN STEWART. Native Orchids of North America North of Mexico. Waltham, MA: Chronica Botanica Company, 1950. (2 copies.)
8. LUER, CARLYLE A. The Native Orchids of Florida. New York: The New York Botanical Garden, 1972.
9. ---. The Native Orchids of the United States and Canada, Excluding FLorida. New York: The New York Botanical Garden, 1975.
10. GUPTON, OSCAR W; and FRED C. SWOPE. Wild Orchids of the Middle Atlantic States. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986.
11. CASE, FREDERICK W., JR. Orchids of the Western Great Lakes Region. Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Institute of Science, 1987.
12. LUKES, ROY. The Ridges Sanctuary. Bailey's Harbor, WI: The Ridges Sanctuary, 1988. Pictorial wrappers.
13. [FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA EDITORIAL COMMITTEE.] Flora of North America. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 2 volumes.
14. HOMOYA, MICHAEL A. Orchids of Indiana. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana Academy of Science, 1993.
15. BROWN, PAUL MARTIN. Wild Orchids of the Northeastern United States. Ithaca, NY and London: Comstock Publishing Associates / Cornell University Press, 1993. Pictorial wrappers.
16. ---. Wild Orchids of Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.
17. KEENAN, PHILIP E. Wild Orchids Across North America. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 1998. * American Orchid Society Register of Awards. Washington, DC: American Orchid Society, 1932-1968. 6 volumes. Printed wrappers.

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