Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanarum Extra-Tropicarum; or, figures, with descriptions, of extra-tropical South African Orchids, in 3 volumes (1896-1911-1913) + The Orchids of the Cape Peninsula (1918), in 4 uniformly-bound volumes 25 inches by 11

25 inches by 11

This large work includes Premiere Monographie: “Anatomie du Genre Echinus” by G

Image is of a ptarmigan or lagopus and egg

The Bateman volume consists of 100 fine hand-colored plates selected from orchids published in the ‘Curtis Botanical Magazine’ from 1846-1866

The remarkable color-changes of the last named were well known to the ancients (Book II)"

Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanarum Extra-Tropicarum; or, figures, with descriptions, of extra-tropical South African Orchids, in 3 volumes (1896-1911-1913) + The Orchids of the Cape Peninsula (1918), in 4 uniformly-bound volumes 25 inches by 11Pp. (vol. 1): vi, (6), (6), with 100 hand colored lithographic plates (partially colored as called for), each with descriptive text leaves, (5), index, appendix; (vol. 2): pp. vi, frontispiece portrait of the author, with 100 hand colored lithographic plates (partially colored as called for), each with descriptive text leaves, (3), index; (vol. 3): pp. (6), with 100 hand colored lithographic plates (partially colored as called for), each with