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SCHLECHTER, [Friedrich Richard] Rudolf (1872-1925). Die Orchideen ihre Beschreibung, Kultur und Züchtung. Berlin: Paul Parey, 1915. 8° (245 x 165mm). 12 colour photographic plates and numerous monochrome illustrations. Original green cloth gilt, in protective plastic sleeve. Cf. Stafleu & Cowan 10.780. -- Charles DARWIN (1809-1882). De la Fécondation des Orchidées par les Insectes et des bons résultats du croisement. Translated from the English by L. Rérolle. Paris: C. Reinwald et Cie., 1870. 8° (230 x 132mm). 34 engravings in the text, 24pp. publisher's catalogue bound in at the back. (Some light spotting.) Original publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gilt (head of spine chip, short tear to front joint). First edition in French. Freeman 818. -- With the second French, and later German, American (two copies) and English editions of the same work, and another work by Darwin in English. (Freeman nos. 819, 822, 809, 811, 803 and 1227.) -- Alex D. HAWKES. Encyclopaedia of Cultivated Orchids . London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1965. 8° (272 x 190mm). 24 colour and numerous monochrome plates, line drawings in the text. Original black cloth gilt, with dust-jacket. -- And 73 other volumes on orchid cultivation and collecting, including orchid journals and reviews, proceedings of conferences and works by J. Lindley, A. Cogniaux, D. Sander, J. Costantin and J. Arditti. (82)