Orchids of Glasnevin. Limited Edition (2002)
Book ID: 68360
Price: €675.00
Orchids of Glasnevin. An Illustrated History of Orchids in Ireland’s National Botanic Gardens. Dublin: Published by Strawberry Tree, 2002. First Edition, Limited Issue. Folio. Quarter leather, green cloth boards, titl in gilt to spine & embossed in red to upper cover. Housed in publisher’s slipcase. A fine bright copy.
Limited Edition of 100 Signed & Numbered Copies.
Illustrated with eighteen plates & 25 drawings throughout the text. The history of orchids at the National Botanic Gardens, with individual chapters on the development of the collection from the Garden’s beginning, a chapter on orchid hunting and one on Native Irish Orchids.
There are two appendices listing the Glasnevin orchids that are described or named in the Kew Bulletin and the first published records of native Irish species.
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