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Auction archive: Lot number 319

Orchids: The Royal Family of Plants

Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 319

Orchids: The Royal Family of Plants

Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Title: Orchids: The Royal Family of Plants Author: Miner, Harriet Stewart Place: Boston Publisher: Lea and Shepard Date: 1885 Description: 90 pp. With 24 chromolithgraphed plates after Miner. 13¾x10¼, original gilt-stamped pictorial cloth, ribbon ties, moire endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition. The first book on orchids with color plates by an American artist; the superb plates were engraved on stone and printed by the Hatch Lithographic Company of New York. Lot Amendments Condition: Ex-library, with bookplate on pastedown, perforated stamp on title-page, and stamps on verso of each plate; covers moderately worn, interior with light spotting and soiling, plates mostly clean; overall very good. Item number: 199231

Auction archive: Lot number 319
Auction:
Datum:
29 Jan 2009
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Orchids: The Royal Family of Plants Author: Miner, Harriet Stewart Place: Boston Publisher: Lea and Shepard Date: 1885 Description: 90 pp. With 24 chromolithgraphed plates after Miner. 13¾x10¼, original gilt-stamped pictorial cloth, ribbon ties, moire endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition. The first book on orchids with color plates by an American artist; the superb plates were engraved on stone and printed by the Hatch Lithographic Company of New York. Lot Amendments Condition: Ex-library, with bookplate on pastedown, perforated stamp on title-page, and stamps on verso of each plate; covers moderately worn, interior with light spotting and soiling, plates mostly clean; overall very good. Item number: 199231

Auction archive: Lot number 319
Auction:
Datum:
29 Jan 2009
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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