Tryon Gallery (3 results)

Square 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Unpaginated, illus with coloured plates throughout (no inscriptiions).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1969, unpaginated approx 40 pages, art catalogue with full page b&w plates; please see image for list of artists | this copy is intact and useable, free of name, notes etc, showing moderate to heavy general wear | professional booksellers based in the UK | we package with great care and usually dispatch within 24hrs, always within two working days | please request scans or further information on any of our listings, which are all in stock and ready to be dispatched.

hardcover. Condition: As New. [Orchidology] Limited ed. of 500 copies. Folio, 54 cm. Bound in quarter morocco by Zaehnsdorf. Hardcover in slip case. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. [79] pages, 32 plates color illustrations, 5 color maps. Many of the flowers documented by Mee are now extinct. "Unlike Amazon botanical artists before her, Margaret worked entirely from living plants. Her fifteen expeditions into the interior, mostly to Amazonia, involved travelling and living under the most primitive conditions. She would draw at night by torchlight to capture rare nocturnal flowers, and this immediacy gave her paintings an accuracy, depth, and colour unrivalled by her predecessors. Her travels coincided with the beginning of the commercial exploitation of the forest, and she expressed her fury at the damage caused to the land and its peoples." (DNB).