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Orchidaceae -
Ornithocephalus chloroleucus From: Dictionnaire de botanique by Henri Ernest Baillon and others. Paris, Hachette, 1891, volume 3. Chromolithograph by Portail after Auguste Faguet (sheet 230 x 310 mm). € 50
Auguste Faguet produced delicate botanical wood-engravings of great accuracy for
the works of Henri Ernest Baillon. For the Dictionnaire de botanique,
published from 1876-1892 in 34 fascicles, he also made 32 fine
chromolithographed plates, which came out with each fascicle without additional
text (2 contained no plate).* Nissen BBI 61 + p. 150; Stafleu & Cowan 253. |
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