La Croix, Isobyl & Eric. African Orchids in the Wild and in Cultivation.
1st. Ed. Pub. Timber Press. 1997 pp.379 with 103 col. photos. & b/w. text figs. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw.
Africa has some 1,550 species from 99 genera of orchids. This book covers the orchids of sub-Saharan Africa, excluding Madagascar and other Indian Ocean Islands.
£10.00 [ref: 64806]

Lang, D. Britain’s Orchids. A guide to the identification and ecology of the wild orchids of Britain and Ireland.
1st. Ed. Pub. WildGuides. 2004 pp.192 with col. photos. and dist. maps. 8vo. Fine hardback.
A comprehensive photographic guide to the 51 species of orchid recorded in Britain and Ireland, including all the varieties and sub-species, as well as 9 species of uncertain or doubtful provenance.
£6.00 [ref: 68353]

Lang, D. Britain’s Orchids.
1st. Ed. Pub. WildGuides. 2004 pp.192 with col. photos & dist. maps. 8vo. Fine hardback.
A comprehensive photographic guide to the orchids of Britain and Ireland, covering 60 species.
£22.00 [ref: 47576]

Lang, D. Orchids of Britain. A Field Guide.
1st. Ed. Pub. OUP. 1980 pp.213 with 49 col. photos. & dist. maps. 8vo. Fine hardback in thor. vg. dw.
A practical guide to the forty-nine species of wild British orchid, the result of twenty-eight years of field work.
£12.50 [ref: 40142]

Lin, Wen-Hsiang and Chou, G. Phalaenopsis Kingdom. from Formosa.
Pub. Asia Agri-Business Corp. 1987 pp. 299 with 1047 col. photos. for the Genus Phalaenopsis and 163 for the Genus Cattleya. Large 4to. Text in both English and Chinese. With 44 pages of advertisements providing further interesting information. Fine hardback.
£30.00 [ref: 46294]

Lindley, Prof. Contributions to the Orchidology of India. Parts I and II.
Rep. Pub. Singh. c.1980 pp.171-190, 1-64, viii. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback in vg. dw., with repaired closed tear to front panel.
Reprints of two papers by Prof. Lindley on the orchids of India (first published in 1857 and 1858). Many of the orchids featured came from the collection of Dr J.D. Hooker and Thomas Johnson. Orchids came from other sources including Thomas Lobb while in the service of Messrs. Veitch.
£10.00 [ref: 34434]

Luer, C.L. The Native Orchids of the United States and Canada. excluding Florida.
1st. Ed. Pub. N.Y. Bot. Garden. 1975 pp.363 with many colour photographs, line drawings and dist. maps. Large 4to. Light spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. a fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
There are over 125 species of orchid native to North America north of Florida, and this profusely illustrated work provides an identification guide to the species, their habitats, and distribution. This work is intended to compliment the author's previous work Native orchids of Florida.
£50.00 [ref: 31224]

Mackenzie, Col. J.S.F. British Orchids. How to Tell One from Another.
Pub. Unwin Brothers. [c.1900] pp.40 with 10 tipped-in col. plates. 4to. Front internal hinge tender. Contents nr. fine with some spotting to ends and occ. to text pages. Original cloth boards good to vg.
A well illustrated identification guide to ten classes of British orchids, with text by botanical writer, James Stuart Fraser Mackenzie (b.1843). At the end are detailed descriptions of the classes and a glossary on the meaning of botanical terms.
£20.00 [ref: 69522]

Maggs, K. The Orchids of East Surrey and the Kent Border.
1st. Ed. Pub. North Downs Press. 1987 pp.64 with many b/w. line drawings & dist. maps. 8vo. Nr. fine softback.
A very useful and easily absorbed guide to identification of orchids in East Surrey and the Kent Border.
£10.00 [ref: 69503]

Masaaki, Chiba. Phalaenopsis Species.
1st. Ed. Pub. Phalaenopsis Publishing Soc. 2002 pp.136 with colour photos. throughout. 4to. Bilingual in English and Japanese. Fine hardback in fine dw. As new.
This is a monograph on the genus Phalaenopsis and related genera, produced from the late author’s manuscript. The colour plates were prepared by the author and the editors who photographed his collection.
£28.00 [ref: 61609]