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the front cover of a book with a picture of an orchides of europethe red book is sitting on a white surface next to a small objecta red book sitting on top of a white surfacean old book with a bunch of flowers on top of it
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89 - CAMUS (Edmond-Gustave). Iconography of the Orchids of Europe…
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CAMUS (Edmond-Gustave). Iconography of the Orchids of Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. Paris, Paul Lechevalier, 1921–1929. 3 tomes in 2 folio volumes, 28.5 × 36.5 cm, 1 folio, 122 plates & 320 pp., frontispiece portrait & 1 folio, 321–560 pp., 1 + 11 + 1 ff., and 11 plates, modern binding in red half-shagreen, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fleurons. First edition of this important posthumous monograph. The work was published and completed by his daughter Aimée Camus, a botanist at the Muséum, who had previously collaborated on her father’s work. Illustrated with a portrait of the author and 133 lithographed plates, 110 of which are in colour, and 237 figures in the text. The last 11 plates, published in 1929, follow the text. A fine copy from Gilbert Dufaux’s natural history library (dry-stamped on the title page and plate 39). The atlas is entirely mounted on tabs. – Appraised by: Cédric and Ithier de FOUGEROLLE
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