Jun 19, 2003 - Sale 1974

Sale 1974 - Lot 274

Price Realized: $ 3,450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
LOTS OF ORCHIDS (BOTANICAL.) Cogniaux, A. Dictionnaire Iconographique des Orchidees. 486 (of ?) lovely chromolithographed plates. 16 volumes, plus loose plates. 8vo, cloth-backed portfolio cases, quite worn; plates generally bright and clean. With numerous parts wrappers; the portfolio cases apparently issued to house complete fascicles by genre. Nissen, Botany (supplement) 2236n. Brussels, 1896-1900

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This botanical magazine, with plates by A. Goossens, was issued from 1896-1907 and is very scarce.