A synopsis of cultivated orchids (supplementary to Folia Orchidae)

Title Variants

Alternative: ADS
Alternative: Synopsis of orchids

By

Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888
Lindley, John, 1799-1865

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Notes

Autograph ms. catalog of cultivated orchids, dated 1874, by Philip Henry Gosse. | Gosse's preface, dated October 1874, indicates that his "Synopsis" contains a list of the genera and species of cultivated orchids not included in Professor John Lindley's "Folia orchidacea : an enumeration of the known species of orchids," first published by J. Matthews in London in 1852. For each genus, Gosse provides a detailed physical description, and a list of the related species. For each species, he includes the country where it flourishes, and bibliographic references to books from his own library. These sources are listed on p. iii-iv, and identified under each species by a series of reference letters. Entries in violet ink refer to Gosse's own drawings from life, either line drawings or full colored illustrations. There are also numerous indexes to the species throughout, and an index to the genera on leaves 190-192.

Leaves numbered i-iv and 1-192, with some blank leaves interleaved.

Half-binding of dark gray-blue pebble-grained cloth and dark brown leather; gold-stamped dark brown leather spine label with title "Synopsis of orchids."

Bookplate of the Library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston, gift of Albert Cameron Burrage, 1859-1931, June 28, 1931.

Binder's ticket of Johns, Bookbinder, Stationer, and Printer in Torquay [Devon, England].

In modern beige linen clamshell box; gold-stamped brown leather box label with title "Synopsis of cultivated orchids. Gosse 1874."

Acquired by the Chicago Botanic Garden from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in November 2002.

Mass. Horticultural Society. Dict. cat., | vol. 2, p. 135

Burrage, A. C. Cat., | p. 34

In English.

Illinois State Library grant funding to digitize in 2015. The volume was digitally imaged by the NEDCC Imaging Lab in compliance with FADGI specifications.

Subjects

1810-1888 , Classification , Gosse, Philip Henry, , Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc , Orchids

Call Number

QK495.O64G67 1874

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 42207131