Icones Orchideum Austro-Africanarum Extra-Tropicarum;

£3,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Rare. Of the 250 sets printed only half were made avaliable to the public. “The coloured drawings of the orchids are very beautiful and there is an ample letter press description of the varieties” (Mendelssohn). Nissen BBI, 197; Mendelssohn I, p149.

• Year: 1917

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