Collectanea orchidacea, ca. 1890?-1929.

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Collectanea orchidacea, ca. 1890?-1929.

Eight ms. notebooks compiled by Dr. Fritz Kränzlin in Berlin, Wolfenbüttel, and Gross-Lichterfelde, Germany, between 1892 and 1929, containing more than 2000 orchid diagnoses, notes, pencil sketches of new orchid species, clippings and transcriptions of articles from numerous botanical journals, and correspondence from other orchidologists and orchid hunters and growers around the world.

8 v. ; 28 cm. or smaller.

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