Album des Orchidees de l'Europe Centrale et Septrentrionale
by CORREVON, H. [Henry];
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Geneva, Paris, Librairie George, Librairie O. Doin, 1899, First edition. . original green cloth, gilt title lettering, rubbed at edges, some light foxing mostly marginal else a very good copy with good impressions of the plates, inscribed presentation copy in French signed by author dated May 1899. . 8vo [25 x 16.5 cm]; xii, [vi], 92, [120], [iv, ads with illus] pp, 60 plates, of which 59 are fine colored lithographs (chromolithographs), other illustrations in text. . Nissen 406a. Not in Glikbarg. Correvon, Swiss botanist and alpinist, wrote a number of influential works on alpine plants and flowers. The very attractive plates in this original edition are finely done and superior to those in the 1923 reprint. Each plate has the scientific name, and the common names in French, English and German. The text is in French. A picture of this book is available on request by email.
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- Bookseller
- Horizon Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- J9406
- Title
- Album des Orchidees de l'Europe Centrale et Septrentrionale
- Author
- CORREVON, H. [Henry];
- Format/Binding
- Original green cloth, gilt title lettering, rubbed at edges, some light foxing mostly marginal else a very good copy with good i
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Geneva, Paris, Librairie George, Librairie O. Doin, 1899, First edition.
- Size
- 8vo [25 x 16.5 cm]; xii, [vi], 9
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature - Botany;
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