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Natural History
11:00 AM PT - Nov 11th, 2008

 

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Lot 114C save

MINER, Harriet Beacher (illustrator). Orchids: Th

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MINER, Harriet Beacher (illustrator). Orchids: The Royal Family of Plants.
Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1889. Folio (360 x 270 mm). With 24 chromolithographed plates after Miner. Original pictorial cloth, e.g. Condition: several pages loose; worn, upper cover nearly detached, spine separated. [With:] WEISE, Gustav. Naturgeschichte in Bildern. Stuttgart: Das Pflanzen und Mineralreich, [N.d.] Folio (360 x 260 mm). Illustrated with 11 plates (of 25). Original pictorial boards, modern backstrip. Condition: boards worn, plates generally clean. [And:] WILHELM, G.T. Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgelchichte. Vienna: Des Bflanzenreichs, 1813. Volume I only (of 28). 8vo (193 x 120 mm). Engraved title, 58 hand colored plates. Original marbled boards, paper lettering label to spine. Condition: boards worn, occasional foxing. [And:] MCINTOSH, Charles. The Practical Gardener and Modern Horticulturist. London: Thomas Kelly, 1828-1832. 2 volumes. 8vo (230 x 145 mm). 16 color plates. Contemporary cloth backed patterned paper boards, printed paper labels, uncut. Condition: modern endpapers, some wear to extremities. (5)


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