KERCHOVE DE DENTERGHEM, Oswald de. - The Orchid Book. Illust - Lot 52

KERCHOVE DE DENTERGHEM, Oswald de. - The Orchid Book. Illustrated with 310 engravings and 31 chromolithographic plates - Paris, Gand, Masson, Hoste, 1894 - In-4, VIII, 601 pp, 31 color plates, 310 engravings in text; green half-maroquin, ribbed spine, gilt head (modern binding). First edition illustrated with 31 beautiful color plates and 310 illustrations in the text. L'Orchidée, sa structure et son organisation (définition, port, tige, feuille, racines, fleurs...) - L'Orchidée, son utilité et sa patrie - L'Orchidée, sa culture, ses amis et ses ennemis (Historique, culture de pleine terre, en serre, orchidées importées...) Count Oswald Kerchove de Denterghem, president of the prestigious Royal Agricultural and Botanical Society of Ghent and a great lover of rare plants, owned one of the most beautiful winter gardens in the world. A very fine copy of this important work, spine uniformly faded. (Nissen, Die botanische Buchillustration, 1031).