Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanarum Extra-Tropicarum ; Figures, with Descriptions, of Extra-Tropical South African Orchids - 3 Volumes

Bolus, Harry

William Wesley & Son, London, 1896.

3 volumes. *Important Note: Lacking volume I, part I.*  Contains: Vol. 1 part III, Vol. II, Vol. III. Limited edition of 250 copies. Profusion of lithographic color plates. 26 cm. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover.  Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Mendelssohn I p. 149; SABIB 1 p. 237; Hosken p. 21.

Bolus began to take a special interest in Orchidaceae after his first trip to Kew. His first publications on Orchidaceae appeared in 1882 when besides his 'Notes on some Cape orchids' he published 'A list of published species of Cape orchideae' prepared largely during a visit to Kew in 1881. He published The orchids of the Cape Peninsula in 1888 many of the 102 species which he described being illustrated with partly-coloured plates which he prepared himself. This work was followed in 1893 by the first volume of his Icones orchidearum Austro-Africanarum extra-tropicarum. Although he worked on two volumes the second did not appear until just after his death in 1911. A third volume was edited and completed by Miss H. M. L. Kensit with nine extra plates painted by his son Frank Bolus (1870-1945) and published in London in 1913.

Other Titles: Icones orchidearum austro-africanarum extra tropicarumFigures, with descriptions, of extra-tropical South African orchidsOrchids of South Africa. London : W. Wesley, 1896-1913.