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Author: Sander, Henry Frederick Conrad
Title: Reichenbachia. Orchids Illustrated and Described
Place Published: London
Publisher:H. Sotheran & Co.
Date Published: 1888
Description:
First Series. Two volumes in four. 94 (of 96) mounted chromolithograph plates, some finished by hand, interleaved with descriptive letterpress. (Folio) 67x50 cm (26½x19½") period three-quarter green morocco and cloth, spines gilt, all edges gilt. No. 88 of 100 copies of the Imperial Edition, signed by Sanders at the limitation. First Edition.

Named in honor of Professor Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1824-1889), of Hamburg, Germany, "the great Orchidologist who devotes his life to the study of the orchid family". Live-size illustrations of various orchid species by Henry G. Moon and others. The growing popularity of Orchids, and the ever-increasing demand for information respecting them, is sufficient reason for issuing the present work ... It will be our aim to represent truthfully the natural aspect of the plants, which will be drawn life size ... Some of the plant portraits will be coloured by lithography, others will be hand painted when found expedient ... It is our intention to illustrate all classes of the Orchid family" (from introduction). Nissen, BBI 1722, Great Flower Books 75 ("An important and authoritative work for orchid growers"."). Sold for the benefit of the Friends of Honolulu Botanical Gardens.

Bindings worn, cloth perished from front cover of first volume; moisture staining and some small holes to preliminary leaves, text, and plates in Volume 1 diminishing in severity through plate number 9, lacking plates 4 & 14; browning and foxing, mostly to mounts but extending into images in some cases, chip to fore edge of one mount in third volume; plates overall very good.