First Edition. Hardback. Large 4to. pp 525. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Contains all of the 1176 hand-coloured orchid plates published between the years 1787 and 1948 in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, the oldest surviving botanical magazine in the world. Attractive calligraphic bookplate of Victoria Burbidge (and husband Brinsley) botanist, both at Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and at Kew, also Denver Botanic Garden. For many years she edited CurtisÕ Botanical Magazine. She was also Clematis registrar for the Royal Horticultural Society. She was also known as Vicky Matthews. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper to Victoria Burbidge, "with my best wishes, Samuel Sprunger." ISBN: 0521325951 Very good indeed in very good dust jacket and very good slip-case. Seller Inventory # C87841

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Title: ORCHIDS FROM CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. (...

Publisher: Cambridge University Press,, Cambridge,

Publication Date: 1986

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signedes

Edition: 1st Edition

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Curtis' Botanical Magazine is probably the finest and most important source of illustrations of orchids and early copies of this publication are now collectors' items with considerable rarity value. This beautiful volume makes available for the first time portraits and scientific details of more than 1200 orchid species, many first described in Curtis' Magazine. The scientific value of this facsimile reprint has been considerably increased by the provision of an updated botanical nomenclature including synonyms and bibliography. The illustrations are of a very high standard and represent the work of leading botanical artists including Walter Hood Fitch, Lilian Snelling and Mary Grierson. These colour plates (a total of 408) form the bulk of the book and have been printed to the very highest standard, and matched against the Basel edition of the Magazine itself.

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