Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History
Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History
Auction Closed
July 28, 03:29 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Library at Spetchley Park
HOOKER, JOSEPH DALTON
Illustrations of Himalayan Plants. London: Lovell Reeve, 1855
FIRST EDITION, folio (500 x 365mm.), printed title, lithographed title within hand-coloured floral border, 24 hand-coloured lithographed plates, list of subscribers, original green cloth, contents loose (gutta percha perished), dampstaining to binding and first part of text and plates, spotting, somewhat worn
Hooker's second book on Himalayan plants includes two plates of orchids: Cyrtosia (Erythrorchis) Lindleyana and Vanda Cathcarti. Of the first, Hooker writes, "The subject of the present plate is certainly the most remarkable orchid in the Himalaya, if not in all India, and belongs to a small genus, native of the Eastern Himalaya, the Khasia mountains, and the Malayan Islands."
LITERATURE:
Great Flower Books p. 60; Nissen BBI 910
PROVENANCE:
Ellen Ann Willmott (1858–1934), Warley Place, Essex; posthumous sale in these rooms, 1-3 April 1935, lot 239