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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. B & W And Color PHotos, Text Figures by Stalky Dunsterville (illustrator). Copyright Date: 1988 Quarto, PP. XV, 280, An Anthology Of 64 Articles Extracted From Past Issues Of The American Orchid Society Bulletin.

4to [28.5 x 22 cm]; xv, 280 pp, numerous color illustrations from photos, bw photos, many drwgs of orchids, maps, map endpapers, index. original cloth, dj, fine, clean throughout. The author of the 6 volume Venezuela Orchids Illustrated, travelled widely in Venezuela in search of its 1,200 orchid species. This is an interesting mixture of botany and adventure which appeared in the American Orchid Society Bulletin over a 40 year period. The Lost World was made famous by Arthur Conan Doyle. A picture of this book is available on request.

4to [28.5 x 22 cm]; xv, 280 pp, numerous color illus from photos, black and white photos, many drawings of orchids, maps, map endpapers, index. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj, fine in fine jacket, clean throughout. The author of the 6 volume Venezuela Orchids Illustrated, traveled widely in Venezuela in search of its 1,200 orchid species. This is an interesting mixture of botany and adventure which appeared in the American Orchid Society Bulletin over a 40 year period. The Lost World was made famous by Arthur Conan Doyle. A picture of this book is available on request.

4to [28.5 x 22 cm]; xv, 280 pp, numerous color illus from photos, black and white photos, many drawings of orchids, maps, map endpapers, index. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj, fine in fine jacket, clean throughout. The author of the 6 volume Venezuela Orchids Illustrated, traveled widely in Venezuela in search of its 1,200 orchid species. This is an interesting mixture of botany and adventure which appeared in the American Orchid Society Bulletin over a 40 year period. The Lost World was made famous by Arthur Conan Doyle. A picture of this book is available on request.

4to [28.5 x 22 cm]; xv, 280 pp, numerous color illus from photos, black and white photos, many drawings of orchids, maps, map endpapers, index. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj, fine in fine jacket, clean throughout. The author of the 6 volume Venezuela Orchids Illustrated, traveled widely in Venezuela in search of its 1,200 orchid species. This is an interesting mixture of botany and adventure which appeared in the American Orchid Society Bulletin over a 40 year period. The Lost World was made famous by Arthur Conan Doyle. A picture of this book is available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. xv, 280 pages; Clean and secure in original cloth binding in very nice photographic dustjacket. Numerous colour illustrations from photographs, b&w photographs, many drawings of orchids, maps, map endpapers, index. Galfrid Clement Keyworth "Stalky" Dunsterville (1905 - 1988) was a petroleum technician by profession and a naturalist and explorer by avocation with an immense passion for orchideology. Dunsterville was a technician at the Shell oil company in Venezuela, which afforded him the opportunity to pursue his interest in orchids through extensive travels in Venezuela in search of 1,200 species of orchids. With the help of his wife Nora, who was in charge of taking detailed photographs , he presented his work, over a period of 40 years, in the bulletin of the American Orchid Society. The result of their work have been the 6 volumes of "The Orchids of Venezuela, Illustrated", a definitive and exhaustive work on all of Venezuela's orchids. This book comprises 64 fascinating articles by the Dunstervilles, which appeared in the American Orchid Society Bulletins over the course of 40 years.

American Orchid Society, Inc. - 1988 - In-4, cartonné sous jaquette illustrée de l'éditeur - 280 pages - Illustrations et reproductions photographiques en N&B et en couleurs - Ouvrage en anglais - ISBN : 0923096000 Bon état - Menus frottements sur la jaquette - Bords de la jaquette quelque peu ternis.