[NATURAL HISTORY]. MINER, Harriet Stewart (1840-1895). Orchids: the Royal Family of Plants. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1885.

Small folio. 24 chromolithographed plates. Original pictorial olive green pebbled cloth gilt, all edges gilt (light rubbing to extremities, a few spots of fraying at fore-corners and spine ends, hinges a bit tender).

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, published simultaneously in England. Miner's work was the first color-plate book of orchids published in America and is considered "the ranking work on the subject and very striking" (Bennett, p.78).

Property from the Estate of Peter Fortsas

This lot is located in Chicago.