Thesaurus Masdevalliarum. Eine Monographie der Gattung Masdevallia - A Monograph of the genus Masdevallia. Vol. 1-5

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Text bilingual English/German. Colour plates from watercolours by Anne Marie Trechslin, line drawings by C.A. Luer, H. Schildhauer and D. Pongratz. A magnificent monograph on the orchid genus Masdevallia, which is distributed in central and southern America, from Mexico to southern Brazil. Published in 21 fascicules, the first 20 of which each include 15 colour plates showing the orchid species in their natural size, together with descriptive text, including scientific and common names, synonyms, etymology, description and distribution. Fascicule 20a contained only the title pages, contents pages, etc. All here bound in five volumes in the original artificial leather covers provided by the publisher.

Condition

5 vols, large folio (420x300mm), orig. art. leather, raised bands and gilt titles to spines. Fine.