Hamilton,R.M. The Orchid Doctor: Remedies, Recipes, Recommendations and Referrals.
Rep. Pub. Robert M. Hamilton. 1989 pp. vi, 152. Foreword by Dr. O. Wesley Davidson. Vg. copy in card covers.
£7.00 [ref: 33380]

Hansen, Eric. Orchid Fever. A horticultural tale of love, lust and lunacy.
1st. Ed. Pub. Methuen. 2000 pp.272 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Light spotting to top-edge of text block o/w. a fine hardback in fine dw. With loosely inserted lengthy newspaper article (Daily Telegraph, Apr. 2000) by Eric Hansen about enigmatic orchid collector Henry Azadehel.
An exhilarating journey to the heart of an orchidaceous darkness.
£7.50 [ref: 52706]

Harrap, A. & Harrap, S. Orchids of Britain And Ireland. A Field and Site Guide.
2nd. Ed. Pub. A&C Black. 2009 pp.480 with numerous colour photos. 8vo. Fine softback, as new, with some sunning to spine. Latest edition. Recommended.
This comprehensive and well illustrated guide is a benchmark for the identification of British and Irish orchids. With detailed information on their biology, habitats, distribution and conservation, it covers all 56 species of wild orchid found in Britain and Ireland.
£25.00 [ref: 68355]

Harrap, A. & Harrap, S. Orchids of Britain And Ireland. A Field and Site Guide.
1st. Ed. Pub. A&C Black. 2005 pp.480 with col. photos. & dist. maps throughout. 8vo. Nr. fine softback.
This comprehensive and well illustrated guide is a benchmark for the identification of British and Irish orchids. With detailed information on their biology, habitats, distribution and conservation, it covers all 56 species of wild orchid found in Britain and Ireland.
£15.00 [ref: 68338]

Harrison, E.R. Epiphytic Orchids of Southern Africa. a field guide to the indigenous species.
1st. Ed. Pub. Natal Branch of the Wildlife Protection and Conservation Soc. of S. Africa. 1972 pp.v, 107 with line drawings and dist. maps. 8vo. Owner’s label to title page. Fine softback.
This book deals with the forty-two species to have been discovered in Southern Africa, south of the Limpopo river.
£7.50 [ref: 67235]

Hawkes, A.D. Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids. An Illustrated Descriptve Mnual.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Faber & Faber. 1989 pp.602 with col. & b/w. photos. plus line drawings. 4to. Spotting to fore-edges of text block, top fore-corners of boards gently bumped o/w. a fine hardback in fine dw.
An illustrated, descriptive manual of the members of the Orchidaceae currently in cultivation.
£37.50 [ref: 33414]

Hawkes, A.D. Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids. An illustrated, descriptive manual of the members of the Orchidaceae currently in cultivation.
Pub. Faber and Faber. 1970 pp. 602 with many monochrome plates and line drawings and 24 colour plates. A little sellotape residue on ednpapers. VG. in vg. dw.
Reviews of this book included ‘If it were possible it should be on the bookshelf of all who have a keenness for these plants’ Journal of the Orchid Society of Great Britain.
£65.00 [ref: 34718]

Holst, A.W. The World of Catasetums.
1st. Ed. Pub. Timber Press. 1999 pp.306 with 90 col. & b/w. photos., plus b/w. figs. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw. Out-of-print.
Emphasis is placed on the practical concerns faced by growers rather than on the taxonomic complexities of a highly variable and confused genus.
£60.00 [ref: 65243]

Hsiang, Rue-Chih. Phalaenopsis. Superior Parentages and Awards (1862-1978).
Pub. Orchid Society of the Rep. of China. [1987] pp.583 with col. & b/w. photos. 4to. Hardback. Text in English and Chinese. Some spotting to top-edge of text block, front internal hinge a little tender o/w. a fine hardback. With Publisher’s Corrigenda loosely inserted.
£30.00 [ref: 34676]

Hunt, D.R. (Ed.). Orchids from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine.
1st. Ed. Pub. Curwen Books. 1981 pp.125 with 31 finely reproduced colour plates (5 being fold-outs). Large 8vo. Bookplate of Sybil B. Spencer with her signature. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. a fine hardback in fine dw.
A superb collation of all the orchid plates and text published in the Magazine between 1971 and 1981. All illustrations are by either Margaret Stones or Christabel King. Sybil Beatrice Spencer born Sybil Beatrice Armitage (1908 – 1994) was a British gardener. With her husband and son she created the York Gate Garden. After the deaths of her son and her husband she cared for the garden for twelve years leaving it to a charity to be shared by visitors.
£22.50 [ref: 71863]