Author: BODEGOM, J. VAN,
Title: Enige Orchideeën van West Nieuw Guinea. [Eerste en enige druk/first and only edition].
Description: Enschede, Technische Hogeschool, 1973. Original printed stiff wrappers. (vii), 199pp. Many black/white illustrations in text after original field photographs by author, some line-drawings and tables in text, author's introduction, table of contents (list of latin names of species collected). Dutch language scientific descriptions of Orchids as collected and photographed by author between 1954-1962 in the former territory of Dutch West New Guinea. Copy with a 7-line ms. dedication in ink, signed, at upper right corner ot ti.-p. Very good copy. Rare. (light crack to ower part of front cover).

Keywords: botany orchids collecting species description sience flora newguinea oceania plants inscribed