Henry Frederick Conrad Sander
Reichenbachia: Orchids Illustrated and Described
F. Sander and J. French for Henry Sothern
1886 - 1894
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First-edition set of Sander's Reichenbachia: Orchids Illustrated and Described.
- Sold as a set of 4.
- Henry Frederick Conrad Sander (German).
- St. Albans, London: F. Sander and J. French for Henry Sothern, [1886]-1888-1894.
- 110, 106, iii, 104, 114 pp.
- Large folios.
- Two series bound in four volumes.
- Complete with 48 plates to each volume, 192 in total, plates for each series numbered sequentially 1-96.
- Plates are chromolithographic, by Joseph Mansell, G. Leutzsch and J.L. Macfarlane after Henry Moon, W.H. Fitch, A.H. Loch and C. Storer, heightened with gum arabic, wood-engraved illustrations based on original watercolors.
- First series bound in full brown leather with gilt ruling and titling to spines.
- Second series bound in three-quarters black leather with morocco-grain cloth on boards.
The extraordinary magnum opus of Henry Frederick Conrad Sander, a German-born orchidologist who spent much of his career in England. Sander named the collection after Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, a fellow German and fellow orchidologist, and drew heavily on Rei🌼chebach’s work for the text in this collection. The majority of the life-size plates are based on watercolors by Henry George Moon, who eventually became Sander’s son-in-law. Although Reichenbachia was not the first collaboration between Moon and Sanders, they first met in 1884, when Moon visited Sander’s orchid nursery to make drawings for another publication, it is the work for which they are both most famous. The blocks on Moon’s watercolors were handmade out of wood, and the chromolithographs produced from them sometiꦿmes required as many as twenty inks; once the printing was completed, many of the plates were individually hand-finished. As a result, the work was fantastically expensive to print, reportedly costing well over £7,000 (over $1.2 million today).
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GoodFirst series:
Bound with edges and corners of boards, heads and tails of spines, and joints mod💙erately rubbed and numerous light marks to boards.
Text on spine of Vol. II reads “Vol. II / Second Series,” but the volume 𓆉is actually from the first series.
The majority of the gray paper🐈 wraps from the original monthly publications are preserved and bound in, though several have tears repaired with clear tape. Long closed tear to tissue protector for plate 13.
Several other tissueಌ protec🅺tors with smaller tears.
Large tear to page 39 repaired with clear tape.
Plate 18 🧜with small closed tear to margin repaired with clear t𝔍ape and tear to margin of plate 49.
Small tear to margin of pages 67, 87.
Plate 35 with small patch of paper adhered to gum arabic added to plate, plates 81 and 93 in♐ similar state.
Several other plates with trivial semi-transparent layers of paper fibers adhered to plate♏s.
Plate 70 bound in upside down.
Tissue protector🥀 for plate 90 mostly adhered to gum arabic on plate.
Second series:
Lᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚeather considerably rubbed and chipped with several small tears at heads and tails of spines.
Several tears to cloth cover💟ing boards, including a narrow f✅our-inch long patch of missing cloth at the fore-edge of the front board of Vol. 1.
Pages of all volumes age-toned with scattered foxing (fo♓xing generally does not impact plates).
Small patches of tissue protector adhered to gum arabic on plates 1, 7, 10, 11, ✤22, 24, 25, 27, 38, 39, 69 and 75.
A large patch of tissue p🌜rotector adhered to plate 2, with an open tear in tissue protector, plates 5, 54 and 56 in a similar stat♛e.
Tissue protector mostly a💎dhered to plate 8, with large tears in protector, plates 13 and 41 in similar states.
Ti🌊ssue protector for page 78 mostly adhered to plate, with aಌ small tear.
Tissue prot🅺ector mostly adhered to plates 43, 44, 45 and 60.
Several tears to tissue protector for p🗹late 36, and smaller minorཧ tears to the edges of other tissue protectors.
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