Search Results: Orchids from Loe Books

Aylesbury: Shire Publications Limited, 1985. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. 24 pages, colour & b/w illustrations. Covers fine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A fine copy. Shire Natural History Series..

Costa Rica: Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, 1986. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - (26 x 33cm). 334 pages, 145 full-page colour pages. Text in Spanish and English. The rarer hardback edition with dust jacket, this copy is no. 294 [numbered to last page]. Dust jacket with a little general wear and rubbing to edges, a couple of very small nicks repaired to verso. Brown cloth hardback binding with gilt lettering very good with a few light knocks to edges and corners. Contents clean and tight, unmarked. A very good copy. Please note a heavy book and a small postal surcharge may apply..

London: James Veitch & Sons, 1887. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Volumes I and II 1887 to 1894 Vol. I pp.vii; 160:82:104:134:(1):108:iii (indexes). Vol. II pp.194:80:137:142:108; 72 plates (of which 23 double sided, and 3 folding) and 13 coloured maps. Hardback green cloth binding, near fine with gilt titling to the spines. Contents clean and tight, a little spotting to the ceam endpapers, half title and title page has been professionally conserved to an extremely high standard (see images) all plates and text clean with a few marked on the reverse, no inscriptions. A near fine copy..

New York: The New York Botanical Garden, 1972. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. Complete in two volumes 1972, 1975. Original dust jackets very good, light wear. now protected in removable archival sleeves. Hard-back bindings fine. Contents clean and tight, a little dust soiled to top text block, no annotation, John Fowles book plate to second volume and some associated letters present. A very good to near fine set with an interesting provenance. [John Fowles is probably best known for his novels "The Collector" and "The French Lieutenant's Woman", however Fowles was a keen and knowledgeable naturalist and had a substantial natural history library.].

London: Penguin Books, 1979. Book. Very Good. Hardback. Reprint. 12mo. Penguin Nature Guide. 146 pages, numerous colour illustrations. Original laminated boards very good with some general wear. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A very good copy..

London: Bentham Moxon Trust. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio. pp. 407, colour photographic illustrations throughout. Original dust jacket fine with a little rubbing to edges, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A fine bright copy. (130 genera are listed, and a total of 731 species described, with keys to genera/species.).

London: Penguin Books, 1979. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 12mo. Penguin Nature Guide. 146 pages, numerous colour illustrations. Original laminated boards fine, protected in a removable clear sleeve. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A fine copy..

London: Curwen Books, 1981. Book. Illus. by Margaret Stones & Christabel King. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp.125; 31 fine colour plates, of which 5 are folding. Original dust jacket fine with minimal wear, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A fine bright copy. A fine collected edition of all the orchid plates and text published in the Magazine between 1971 and 1981; all illustrated by either Margaret Stones or Christabel King..

London: Blandford Press, 1961. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 12mo. pp. xiv, 235 with 32 colour illustrations and many line drawings. Original dust jacket fine with minimal wear, price-clipped. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, private bookplate of Peter Tate to the front paste-down, otherwise appears unread. A fine bright copy..

London: Harvard University Press, 1990. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Paperback Edition. 8vo. 332 pages, colour photographic plates and b/w illustrations. Covers very good with a little general wear and slight rubbing. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A very good copy..

France: Naturalia, 1994. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio. A facsimile of the first edition of 1806. This edition limited to 1500 numbered English copies, this is No. 504. 48 colour plates depicting the most beautiful and recently discovered orchids (1860). This is an as-new copy, no obvious wear. A finely produced book..

London: Croom Helm, 1982. Book. Illus. by Graham, Digby. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio. pp 109, dust jacket with slight chipping protected in archival sleeve, boards with some slight edge-wear o/w in very good condition. Contents clean and tight, b/w diagrams and fine colour paintings throughout. A very good copy..

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 444 pages, b/w illustrations. Original hard cover fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A fine tight copy..

London: Andre Deutsch, 1959. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. 2 vols (vols 1 & 2 of 6), gilt titling to spine, contents neat and tight, both djs protected with archival sleeves torn and chipped with a little loss, vol 1: 448 pp, b/w illus and diagrams throughout, b/w map at front, 16 clr photos at front, a very good copy. Vol 2: 360 pp, photo frontis, published 1961, clr photos. Very good copies Both volumes in Spanish and English..

Netherlands: -Graveland, Ver. tot Behoud van Natuurmonumenten in Nederland, 1977. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio (24 x 31cm). pp. 575, 258 col. plts after drawings by the author, maps and numerous text-illustrations. Original dust jackets fine, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in loose-fitting clear archival sleeves. Hard back binding fines. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A fine bright set of this monumental work..