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  • Date published: 1973
  • Format: Hardcover
4to. Hardcover. Green cloth. Facsimile of the 7th edition. 796pp. Numerous b&w illustrations. Very good+.
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  • Publisher: Wheldon & Wesley
  • Date published: 1961
Containing of the best species and Varieties of Orchidaceous plants in cultivation. Nachdruck der Ausgabe London 1894. Codicote, Wheldon & Wesley 1961. XIX, 796 S., OLeinenband Gutes Exemplar.
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  • Publisher: Wheldon & Wesley , Ltd
  • Date published: 1973
  • Format: Hardcover
Reprint Edition of 7th Edition from 1894. Book has faint wear to cover corners. 8 inch rip to side of cloth spine. Slight rubbing across covers. Spine faintly shaken. Slight surface stains to outside page block. Otherwise, pages are clean and crisp. Binding is strong and boards are sturdy. No other major wear or markings. Photos upon request.
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  • Publisher: Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, London
  • Date published: 1877
  • Format: Hardcover
5th edition, iii-xii 336pp, 22pp of advertisements at the end, lacks half title and coloured frontispiece, modern half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine (slightly faded), preliminaries damaged and rather poorly repaired (with some loss to list of illustrations and contents but otherwise not affecting the text), edges of 3 other leaves and 2 plates similarly damaged and repaired, the bottom portion of one plate (Angraecum Ellisii at p89) torn away, some light spotting throughout, modern woodcut bookplate by Andy English on front pastedown, 8vo (199x121mm)
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  • Publisher: Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, London
  • Date published: 1894
  • Format: Hardcover
Reproduction. Black and white illustrations inside. Book is clean and tight without inside markings. The cultivation of Orchidaceous plants is no longer exclusively the privilege of the few, now that their nature and requirements are better understood than was the case in former years.
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  • Publisher: Victorian Paradise Nurseries
  • Date published: 1877
London: Victorian Paradise Nurseries, 1877. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 200x130x32mm. 200x130x32mm+614g . . 500g Postage Incorrect see below for 1kg . . Victorian Paradise Nurseries. London. 1877. . . . Pp336. plus 24 pages advertisments. Victoria and Paradise Nurseries. Hardcover. Descriptions of upwards of 930 species and varieties of orchidaceous plants; together with notices of their times of flowering. and most approved modes of treatment; also. plain and practical instructions relating to the general culture of orchids; remarks on the heat. moisture. soil. season of growth and rest best suited to the several species. Scarce book. The attractive. original pictorial cloth binding has a dark-green background with gilt titles on the spine and black decor plus a gilt orchid on the front; boards are worn. corners worn. spine shows wear. Lemon coloured endpapers. Loose Binding :- book block is loose with several pages detached - non missing - some have creasing to margins. Page 329 of index has a loss across one column. A superb folding coloured frontispiece of the orchid 'Odontoglossum vexillarium' has a repaired tear. with folds showing wear. Clean. 52 black and white illustrations. most of them plates and the majority folding- most have minor creasing and fore-edge damage. This highly acclaimed book. which has been reprinted in modern times. is particularly hard to find in an early edition. . . Australia_Post_Zoned_International_Shipping_Rates_FOR_THIS_PARCEL . . AP-Zone1_NZ:_AU$30.00 . . AP-Zone3_Canada_USA:_AU$47.80 . . AP-Zone4_UK_Europe:_AU$54.80 . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$11.20
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  • Publisher: Victorian Paradise Nurseries, London
  • Date published: 1877
  • Format: Hardcover
200x130x32mm+614g . . 500g Postage Incorrect see below for 1kg . . Victorian Paradise Nurseries. London. 1877. . . . Pp336. plus 24 pages advertisments. Victoria and Paradise Nurseries. Hardcover. Descriptions of upwards of 930 species and varieties of orchidaceous plants; together with notices of their times of flowering. and most approved modes of treatment; also. plain and practical instructions relating to the general culture of orchids; remarks on the heat. moisture. soil. season of growth and rest best suited to the several species. Scarce book. The attractive. original pictorial cloth binding has a dark-green background with gilt titles on the spine and black decor plus a gilt orchid on the front; boards are worn. corners worn. spine shows wear. Lemon coloured endpapers. Loose Binding :- book block is loose with several pages detached - non missing - some have creasing to margins. Page 329 of index has a loss across one column. A superb folding coloured frontispiece of the orchid 'Odontoglossum vexillarium' has a repaired tear. with folds showing wear. Clean. 52 black and white illustrations. most of them plates and the majority folding- most have minor creasing and fore-edge damage. This highly acclaimed book. which has been reprinted in modern times. is particularly hard to find in an early edition. . . Australia_Post_Zoned_International_Shipping_Rates_FOR_THIS_PARCEL . . AP-Zone1_NZ:_AU$30.00 . . AP-Zone3_Canada_USA:_AU$47.80 . . AP-Zone4_UK_Europe:_AU$54.80 . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$11.20 692
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  • Format: Hardcover
and Varieties of Orchidaceous Plants in Cultivation. Seventh Edition, enlarged and revised to the present time by Herny Williams. Published at Victoria and Paradise Nurseries. London. 1894. Reptint by Wheldon&Wesley Ltd./Strauss&Cramer GmbH. Leuterhausen. 1973. xix. 796 S. Quart. with numerous Illustrations. Wheldon&Wesley Ltd. Codicote. 1973. Guter Zustand/Good condition. Leinen/Hardcover. untere Ecke gestraucht. Sprache: englisch/english.
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  • Publisher: Wheldon & Wesley
  • Date published: 1973
  • Format: Hard Cover
One-inch ink mark on title page, else text clean & bright; binding tight; minor wear to covers; lacks a dustjacket. 797 pages. Illustrated. 1973 reprint of the 1894 seventh edition. We also carry a variety of other orchid titles.
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  • Publisher: Codicote/Herts. and New York, N.Y., Wheldon & Wesley Ltd. and Hafner Publishing Co.
  • Date published: 1961
  • Format: Hardcover
Facsimile reprint of the 1894 edition. Fine in dark green cloth with gilt spine titles; no dust jacket. Thick quarto. 796 pages; indexed. A facsimile of the last edition of the classic work published by Victoria and Paradise Nurseries in London. Fully illustrated with drawings throughout.
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  • Publisher: Wheldon & Wesley Ltd, New York, NY
  • Date published: 1961
  • Format: Hardcover
Facsimile reprint 1961 of the original 7th edition printed in 1894. Hardcover in full green cloth without DJ as issued. Condition very fine inside, square tight and clean book, no edgewear, sharp corners, sold hinges, no foxing, no markings of any kind, no names no underlinings no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. Large thick 8vo, xix + 796 pages. Illustrated. Heavy book will require additional postage for international orders
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Sixth Edition, in green cloth binding, highly decorated, some fairly minor shelfwear to cover and extremities of book, previous owners bookplate on inside front endpaper
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  • Publisher: Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, London
  • Date published: 1871
  • Format: Hardcover
Fourth edition, hardcover, binding and front hinge are cracked and rear hinge is starting, has some areas of rumpling to boards, light bumps to spine ends and corners with boards starting through at lower corners, slight shelfwear to edges, and faint sunning to spine, otherwise a solid Good copy.
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  • Date published: 1984
London: Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 1894. Thick Roy 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth (rubbed). Gilt. (xx, 796, 20pp.). With num. full-page and double-page b/w plates, text-illusts., dec. initials, and adverts at end. Some foxing to prelims, otherwise a good copy.
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  • Publisher: Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, London
  • Date published: 1885
  • Format: Hardcover
6th edition, xiv 660pp, 20pp of advertisements at the end, half title, 66 plates (43 double page), bright publisher's green cloth binding decorated in gilt and black, joints cracked internally, spine slightly dulled with very minor wear to the head and foot, ink drawing of Oncidium Arizajulianum loosely inserted, ink inscription on front free endpaper ("J A Gibson Fielden. A present from his father April 22, 1889"), modern woodcut bookplate by Andy English on front pastedown, a very attractive copy, 8vo (19.3x12.3cm)
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  • Publisher: Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, London
  • Date published: 1877
  • Format: Hardcover
xi, 336, [24]-ads, folding coi frontis, 40 plain plates (many folding), 12 text figs. . HB. 8vo (198x128mm), orig. green cloth, stamped in gilt and black, minor wear. Slightly shaken, with one gathering standing proud; frontispiece with 6cm closed tear to inner edge; a few pages with short tears to outer margin, one page with a longer closed tear (without loss of text) and frayed/lightly soiled margin. Some light foxing. Good. Fifth edition, enlarged and revised. Fine chromolithographic frontispiece by W.H. Fitch, printed by G. Severeyns, Brussels.
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  • Publisher: Published at Victoria and Paradise nurseries, Upper Holloway, London;...
  • Date published: 1877
  • Format: Hardcover
[Orchidology] Bound in publisher's green cloth, with gilt orchid on front. Hardcover. Gutter cracked. A few signatures sprung. xi, 336 pages, 43 unnumbered leaves of plates (many folded): color frontispiece; 20 cm. Benjamin Samuel Williams was an English orchidologist and nurseryman. According to William Glikbarg "Williams provided the stimulus that made orchid growing possible for the average gardener."
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  • Publisher: Published at Victoria and Paradise nurseries, Upper Holloway, London; Williams
  • Date published: 1877
  • Format: Hardcover
[Orchidology] Bound in publisher's green cloth, with gilt orchid on front. Hardcover. Gutter cracked. A few signatures sprung. xi, 336 pages, 43 unnumbered leaves of plates (many folded) : color frontispiece; 20 cm. Benjamin Samuel Williams was an English orchidologist and nurseryman. According to William Glikbarg "Williams provided the stimulus that made orchid growing possible for the average gardener."
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  • Publisher: Wheldon & Wesley
  • Date published: 1973
  • Format: Hard Cover
One-inch ink mark on title page, else text clean & bright; binding tight; minor wear to covers; lacks a dustjacket. 797 pages. Illustrated. 1973 reprint of the 1894 seventh edition. We also carry a variety of other orchid titles.
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  • Publisher: London, Victoria and Paradise Nurseries
  • Date published: 1885
  • Format: Hardcover
6th Ed., enlarged and revised. 19,5 cm. XIV, (2) Bl., 659 S., (10) Bl. Werbung. Mit zahllr. Lithogaphien./With numerous Ill. Neue schlichte private Halbleinwand (Hardcover) m. ggpr. RS. Sehr schönes gepflegtes Exemplar. Seiten teils etwas braunfleckig. Stempel "Deutsche Gartenbau-Gesellschaft" a. S. VII.
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