THE FORGOTTEN ORCHIDS OF ALEXANDRE BRUN
by CRIBB, PHILLIP
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0950790133
- ISBN 13
- 9780950790138
- Seller
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Johannesburg, South Africa
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About This Item
This is the true First Edition since Marshall, the present Publisher, holds the Copyright and the author was based at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. Lavish illustrated dust jacket. Book has my attractive bookplate on the title page. Lavish illustrated end papers; 4 page foreword; full page illustration of 59 species together with botanical information on the facing page; from page 127 to the end at page 159 there is a general text on orchid growing in Europe in the 1890s, with monochrome text illustrations. This book with its magnificent illustrations is truly a treasure. Please expect extra postage. Illus. by BRUN, ALEXANDRE. Covered in PVC plastic.
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- Bookseller
- BOOKLOVERS PARADISE (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009071
- Title
- THE FORGOTTEN ORCHIDS OF ALEXANDRE BRUN
- Author
- CRIBB, PHILLIP
- Illustrator
- BRUN, ALEXANDRE
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover Green Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0950790133
- ISBN 13
- 9780950790138
- Publisher
- Marshall Editions
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1992
- Pages
- 159 incl index, acknowledgements, societies and publications
- Size
- 338x273x19mm
- Keywords
- Botany, Orchids, Botanical Illustration
- Bookseller catalogs
- Botany;
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