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Lot 61
Sale 1022 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 4, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$219
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Lot Description
[ORCHIDS]. A group of 4 works about Orchids, comprising:
[NURSERY CATALOG]. Charlesworth & Co. Orchids. Haywards Heath, [England]: Charlesworth & Co., 1922. -- A Manual of Orchidaceous Plants Cultivated Under Glass in Britain. Part VI. Oaelogyne, Epidendrum. Chelsea: James Veitch & Sons, 1890. -- Orchidaceous Plants. Part III. Dendrobium. N.p.: N.p., [after 1883]. Contemporary black morocco gilt. -- GIBSON, William Hamilton. Our Native Orchids A Series of Drawings from Nature. NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. Provenance: Edith Gay Bittinger, concert singer and wife of Charles Bittinger (1879-1970), American artist (bookplate, signature, 1936), gifted to; Margaret Donnald (gift inscription). -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, 4to and 8vo, all ILLUSTRATED some with colored plates, all in publisher’s original cloth or printed wrappers except where noted, condition generally good.
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil

